On 6/2/2015 2:01 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
Local glyph memory, for use in compressing a document where the same glyph is used two or more times in the document:
Um, that technology already exists. It is called a "font".
A mechanism to be able to use the method to define a glyph linked to a Unicode code point would be a useful facility to add for use in a situation where the glyph is for a regular Unicode character.
And that mechanism has also already been defined. It is called a "cmap": http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/cmap.htm --Ken
