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Article #647Re: font encoding morass
From: J. D. McDonald
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:31
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:31
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In article <1992Aug20.050548.7456@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) writes: >In article <26760@life.ai.mit.edu> bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. >Horn) writes: > * > * THE FONT ENCODING MESS: > * ======================= >Much applause is due to Berthold for enumerating the encoding >issues clearly. >One glimmer of hope is PostScript Level Two ``glyphshow'', >which renders glyphs by name, bypassing encoding issues. >But seriously, we could use a forum to discuss and attempt to >resolve some of these encoding problems -- they are a large pain >in the neck. > ........ Henry Actually there is a simple solution: Each glyph in very font must have a numerical location in the font. Just allow accessing any glyph by font name and its numerical position. This mechanism should be outside of any other method available -- it is completely general and useable anywhere. It gets completely around the problem of "meaning" or "character codes". Doug McDonald
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!mips!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!lyra.scs.uiuc.edu!mcdonald From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: font encoding morass Message-ID: <mcdonald.226@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 Aug 92 16:31:31 GMT References: <26760@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Aug20.050548.7456@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: UIUC SCS Lines: 33