Font tables to position diacritics are not "much harder to create" than anything else involved in font development, and certainly don't require being a programmer. Hinting is harder than positioning tables and does literally involve programming, though I don't hear font developers griping about that. Professional font developers are not quite the luddites the comment suggests.
Petr -----Original Message----- From: Unicode [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jean-François Colson Sent: March 16, 2014 9:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [private] Re: Unicode : Greek Extended. > > > Some fonts don't display this correctly; they show the macron > > partially or completely to the right of the base letter, instead of > > directly > below > > it. The solution is to use another font, and to ask font vendors to > > fix this combination so it looks decent. "(2) Fonts are much harder to create. Instead of just needing a graphic designer to draw characters, you now need to a programmer as well, who understands OpenType tables. [.] Again, HackAscii wins." _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
