At 14:55 -0400 2004-05-25, Ernest Cline wrote:
Based on the example of the 11 point checker font given in Figure 11, NamesList.txt should include glosses as follows:
1FF36 WHITE DRAUGHTS MAN x (white medium circle - 26AA) 1FF37 WHITE DRAUGHTS KING x (bullseye - 25CE) 1FF38 BLACK DRAUGHTS MAN x (black medium circle - 26AB) 1FF39 BLACK DRAUGHTS KING x (fisheye -25C9)
[This assumes that the medium circles in the pipeline and the draughts characters in the proposal are added at their proposed positions.)
I would reject such a unification (though I see that glosses to dot imply a unification). Certainly those are not the traditional shapes used; the larger 3D ones are by far and away more common. Indeed I have never seen the tiny ones in use. 11 point is very small in lead type, that is why they made use of those sorts (which were doubtless created for very different purposes).
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
