At 23:23 11/6/2002, Doug Ewell wrote:
Sorry, I thought that was clear from my comments and from the context of the discussion. For examples of some common .notdef glyphs as recommended by Microsoft and Adobe, see http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/opentype/recom.html. These recommendations were drawn up specifically to discourage use of arbitrary decorative forms, such as the spiral in Palatino Linotype, which are not obviously indicating a problem in a document. Of course, establishing and reinforcing a convention is necessary, and building on the existing convention (box, box with something in it...) is better than trying to invent a new convention.John forgot to mention this, but Michael is right: the glyph has to signify "not defined" or "glyph not supported" in some way.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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