Re: OT: polychromatic fonts

2013-08-27 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-08-22, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all, > Today I read about Microsoft planning to unleash polychromatic fonts > on the world. ... > And a more on-topic question: Should we expect such fonts to be > compatible with LyX? Maybe via LuaTeX? If they are "normal" system fonts, they should wo

Re: OT: polychromatic fonts

2013-08-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Today I read about Microsoft planning to unleash polychromatic fonts > on the world. What do you make of them? As far as I can see, they're > an ungodly monstrosity: > http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/08/polychromatic-digital-type What does MS know of typography. It took them somethi

OT: polychromatic fonts

2013-08-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, Today I read about Microsoft planning to unleash polychromatic fonts on the world. What do you make of them? As far as I can see, they're an ungodly monstrosity: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/08/polychromatic-digital-type . And a more on-topic question: Should we expect suc