Another candidate for the squared precomposed Latin block

2002-10-23 Thread Michael Everson
Ken Whistler especially may be pleased to learn that the following was discussed on the TYPO-L list today: At 09:06 -0400 2002-10-23, Richard Kegler wrote: From: Joe Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Discussion of Type and Typographic Design Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:33:12 -0400 To:

Character identities

2002-10-23 Thread David Starner
I have several questions about character identities. First, is it compliant with Unicode for an Antiqua font to use an s glyph for ſ (U+017F)? It makes switching between Antiqua and Fraktur fonts possible, and it is arguably the glyph given to the middle s in modern Antiqua fonts. Likewise, ä

Re: Character identities

2002-10-23 Thread Stefan Persson
- Original Message - From: David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:00 PM Subject: Character identities Likewise, ä is printed as a with e above in old texts.* Would it be acceptable to make a font with a a^e glyph for ä? It's not even

Re: Character identities

2002-10-23 Thread Markus Scherer
David Starner wrote: First, is it compliant with Unicode for an Antiqua font to use an s glyph for ſ (U+017F)? It makes switching between Antiqua and Fraktur fonts possible, and it is arguably the glyph given to the middle s in modern Antiqua fonts. Likewise, ä is printed as a with e above in