Glyph Standard? (was Re: dotless j)

From: Edward Cherlin (edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 08 1999 - 02:52:52 EDT


At 11:47 -0700 7/5/1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
[snip]
>Again, I repeat my suggestion that no one has replied to yet: Why not have
>two standards? One for glyphs, one for characters and only characters?
>After all, we are dealing with computer communications, and just about
>all other computer communications is done in layers. It seems to make
>a lot of sense to have a different standard for application software,
>and a different one for system (or presentation) software.
>
>Adam

The reason for not having a glyph standard is that different fonts need
different ligature sets. Compare Kufic and Royal Diwani in Arabic for an
extreme example.

--
Ed Cherlin <edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu>
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when
there is nothing left to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away.--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry



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