Dear all, I will not identify myself as a font designer. I learned Physical Education, but not in that field now. I have not designed a font, but have converted one Malayalam TT font to unicode font by adding some opentype tables to that. Malayalam language badly needed someone to do that. Thats how i came to this list.
so i am not a font designer. Now At last windows is supporting Malayalam as a language, and the deficiency of Malayalam Unicode fonts is a problem now. I wish all the present hackfonts got converted to unicode fonts, thus without designing new fonts, we will get so many unicode fonts. this also will not make me a font designer. kevin & siji ________________________ move to unicode let us help the diverse cultures on this earth sustain. anjali.port5.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "E. Keown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 07:29 AM Subject: Re: not font designers? > E. Keown <k underscore isoetc at yahoo dot com> wrote: > >> Supposedly this list has >600 people. >> >> Just of curiosity, how many of you are NOT font >> designers? > > Maybe I'm being a bit cynical (the election wasn't that long ago, after > all), but I have to wonder what the motivation is for asking this > question. > > This is not inherently a list of font designers, nor is the Unicode > Consortium an organization of font vendors. However, there have been > charges by critics, such as Steven Searle of the TRON Project, that > Unicode is in the "font creation business" (among his many wild and > unsubstantiated claims). > > Certainly there are some font designers on this list, but to ask a list > of 600+ members how many are NOT font designers implies that most of > them are. > > You've received nine public responses: one from a genuine font designer, > two (or more, depending on interpretation) from people who have designed > fonts at some time but don't identify themselves as "font designers," > and the remainder from people who definitely aren't font designers. It > would be disingenuous to suggest that the other 591+ list members who > have not responded must therefore be font designers. > > -Doug Ewell > Fullerton, California > http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ > > > > >
