Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008 5:18 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> On Jan 6, 2008 9:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> maybe a big fallback virtual font covering all of unicode ...
>> With Arial Unicode as fallback ;-)
>
> I can try to get some Microsofties* to the meeting. Perhaps they'll agree :-)
> :p
actually the typography part of ms is not that bad -) also, if i'm right
all linux distributions permit you to download/install fonts from ms
(someow these fonts are free); not sure about osx
> After all, if I forget about all the advantages of it (covering
> unicode symbols where typeface doesn't matter so much etc.), the
> approach would be fully compatible with Word in that respect,
> replacing all accented letters with the ones from the fallback font
> :-)
well, you may as well expect worse in the tex community ... font feature
abuse and such
> But after all: there's LinLibertine or the (symbol) Unicode font that
> one of you has mantioned a few days ago.
yes, those fonts are very complete; i wonder if they may be distributed
with tex ...
Hans
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