- Original Message -
From: Asmus Freytag [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Karl Pentzlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: den 31 januari 2002 22:09
Subject: When to use markup: (Was:Introducing the idea of a ROMAN VARIANT
SELECTOR (was: Re: Proposing Fraktur))
A more productive
- Original Message -
From: Asmus Freytag [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Karl Pentzlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: den 31 januari 2002 22:09
Subject: When to use markup: (Was:Introducing the idea of a ROMAN VARIANT
SELECTOR (was: Re: Proposing Fraktur))
A more productive
At 07:35 2/3/2002, Stefan Persson wrote:
Italics is better supported than Fraktur, as most word processors have an
option for using italics with any font installed on the computer. For
Fraktur one has to use a different font.
Um, for italics one has to use a different font also. Many programs
From: John Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Um, for italics one has to use a different font also. Many
programs provide an italics button that activates the italic
member of a font family, but this still involves selecting a
separate font.
Au contraire, sir! Many fonts *do* have a separate .TTF
At 10:25 AM 2/3/02, John Hudson wrote:
Um, for italics one has to use a different font also. Many programs
provide an italics button that activates the italic member of a font
family, but this still involves selecting a separate font.
And it would be simple to set up a font family so that
At 10:55 2/3/2002, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote:
Um, for italics one has to use a different font also. Many
programs provide an italics button that activates the italic
member of a font family, but this still involves selecting a
separate font.
Au contraire, sir! Many fonts *do* have
At 09:42 AM 1/30/02 +0100, Karl Pentzlin wrote:
The question is, are typesetting rules part of the script?
(I mean rules in the sense of obligatory regulations, not guidelines).
This distinction is a very German way of approaching the question.
If yes, (in my opinion) the plain text must carry
.. about Fraktur vs. Roman being a codepoint difference rather than a
markup difference..
Like everything else in character encoding, there are shades of
gray,
and levels of gradation, so not everything is clear cut. But
recognizing
up front that character codes may legitimately serve
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