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Re: Unicode and Fonts

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From: Ari Davidow
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 22:22
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mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:

>In article <qcqnd+-.ari@netcom.com> ari@netcom.com (Ari Davidow) writes:


>>Apple's proposed line layout manager =will= provide a consistent, and
>>on the Mac, standard way of handling the contradiction between character
>>and glyph.

>Will it allow anything that can be done using physical metal type,
>by hand, from as many boxes of type as one choses?

 don't know. It's an unfair question since there are so many
things we can do on computer that weren't conceivable with metal.

ari   
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From: ari@netcom.com (Ari Davidow)
Subject: Re: Unicode and Fonts
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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 22:22:30 GMT
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