John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> We must be talking past one another somehow, but I don't understand how.
> To represent the text as originally written, I need a digital representation
> for each of the characters in it.  Since all I want to do is reprint
> the book -- I don't need to use the unusual characters in interchange --
> the PUA and a commissioned font seem just perfect to me.

But that doesn't work if you're reprinting to XML or HTML, where you can't
rely upon a commissioned font being installed and correctly used. I'm not
even sure you can trust a commissioned font to be installable on the operating
systems of the next few decades.

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