Bob,
I have worked with many terminal emulator systems that use mono-spaced
fonts. The first place you start having problems is with script fonts like
Arabic. With Indic languages you often have to reorder characters before
rendering. I don't think a complete Unicode mono-space font is practical.
Carl
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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 5:28 AM
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Subject: Pan UniCode fonts
>>I don't see the practicality of having many pan-unicode fonts to
accommodate
various faces and typographic styles. If I had a choice, my one pan-unicode
font would be probably be Courier-like.<<
I would agree - just the creation of a good array of fonts would be
astronomically time consuming!
Modules of a font, on the other hand, might be a way
- For example, if you wanted Courier, you could request
Latin, Cyrillic, Kanji, etc modules
and add more as the need/desire presented itself.
Also, for a pan-unicode font, I would like to see
- Monospaced font - like Courier
- Proportional font - both a serif and non-serif like Arial & Times, for
example
Also, if I may ask a novice question -
Would these fonts be accessed by codes like currently in the Windows
environment?
- for example, <alt> nnnn to get me special characters outside of my
keyboard?
and what do Macintosh users do? There's just so many
<shift><apple><option> combos
(not to mention finger dexterity!)
Thanks,
Bob Pesavento
