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Article #760Re: Times font with figure space and thin space?
From: Aandi_Inston
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:14
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:14
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>I, as a naive user in terms of typography and more particulary PostScript implementation of it, would say >that every Unicode character should have a glyph in a font that provides support for that character. You should bear in mind that most PostScript fonts in use, and all those resident in most printers, are not Unicode fonts (if this phrase has any meaning). They are type 1 fonts, using technology invented in 1985, and limited to 255 characters per encoding. You may feel that Unicode should have changed the rules, and in a sense it has. PostScript supported large fonts from around 1990, but initially for far eastern languages. The technology has now been remodelled and recycled into CID fonts and thence into OpenType. If you look for OpenType fonts, you may have better luck. Standard PostScript fonts cannot be expected to have newly invented characters. (Though it seems an exception was made for the euro). > Why should spaces be treated in any different way than non-space characters? In font terms, they shouldn't. But I don't think your expectations of finding a font to do what you want - at least a PostScript font - are that likely to succeed. I definitely feel that typography is the job of the typographic program. Aandi Inston
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