Yep, I clicked on your document and saw an empty square where your character should be.
F = FAIL. — Chris On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:30 PM, William_J_G Overington <[email protected]> wrote: > Private Use Area in Use (from Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag > characters)) >>> That's not agreed upon. I'd say that the general agreement is that the >>> private ranges are of limited usefulness for some very limited use cases >>> (such as designing encodings for new scripts). >> They are of limited usefulness precisely because it is pathologically hard >> to make use of them in their current state of technological evolution. If >> they were easy to make use of, people would be using them all the time. I’d >> bet good money that if you surveyed a lot of applications where custom >> characters are being used, they are not using private use ranges. Now why >> would that be? > Actually, I have used Private Use Area characters a lot, and, once I had got > used to them, I found them incredibly straightforward to use. > I have made fonts that include Private Use Area encodings using the > High-Logic FontCreator program and then used those fonts in Serif PagePlus, > both to produce PDF documents and PNG graphics, as needed for my particular > project at the time. > For example, > http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2957 > http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2672 > William Overington > 3 June 2015
