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Article #2944Re: Universal font standard
From: elliott
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 19:31
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 19:31
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In article <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>Like maybe use ascii characters:
>
>Thus the problem is only to convert one computers format to and from
>this format and universality is guarenteed between all other computers
>supporting this.
One problem with this idea is that a simple picture of the characters
in a font isn't the end of the story. You need to know some
information about the overall size of the font, and for each character
what the baseline and origin are, what kerning limits are, and so
forth.
And on some machines this information doesn't even exist to start
with...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!glacier!elliott From: elliott@glacier.steinmetz Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Universal font standard Message-ID: <10361@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 11 Apr 88 19:31:32 GMT References: <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM> Sender: news@steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: elliott@glacier.UUCP () Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 24 Keywords: common