On 6 Apr 2017, at 02:05, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsso...@telia.com> wrote:
>> Do generic font makers intend to support both graphic terminal emulation and >> chess? > > I don't know. But it should not be impossible to do so. And you think the proposal as it does leads to that? >> Should chess font makers be burdened with graphic terminal emulation glyphs >> they know nothing about? > > If it is really a chess font, they can just use the glyphs for the chess > variety also as the "plain" (terminal emulator variety), and it would not > matter (as long as no-one insist on using it for terminal emulation). Ha, so you’re saying it’s mostly for things like Everson Mono that it matters… ;-) > All that is needed for that is a manoeuvre to copy a few glyphs within the > font (when creating the font). I guess that is not very hard… It is not. Michael Everson
