At 12:07 -0700 2002-08-14, James Kass wrote: >Michael Everson wrote in response to William Overington, > >> >> I suggest you stop calling it the "golden ligatures collection". This >> term imputes a status and nobility to it which it simply doesn't >> have. Indeed, I suggest that you abandon this task and use >> appropriate font technology to achieve your aims. >> -- > >Appropriate font technology for Latin ligature display exists, >but it isn't enabled yet in Microsoft's Uniscribe.*
That doesn't mean that this particular cataloguing of ligatures in the PUA is a good idea. >The Golden Ligatures Collection simply offers font developers >and end users an opportunity to make use of some rather >interesting ligatures in a consistent, although non-standard, >fashion. That doesn't make it a good idea. >Some font developers might even elect to map Latin ligature glyphs >to GLC code positions in addition to offerring GSUB OpenType >substitution tables. Heaven forfend. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
