At 07:35 2/3/2002, Stefan Persson wrote:
>Italics is better supported than Fraktur, as most word processors have an
>option for using italics with any font installed on the computer. For
>Fraktur one has to use a different font.
Um, for italics one has to use a different font also. Many programs provide
an italics button that activates the italic member of a font family, but
this still involves selecting a separate font.
>There is no Fraktur font widely
>spread on all Windows computers or something like that, so it's almost
>impossible to using Fraktur text in any public document or similar w/o using
>bitmaps.
There are plenty of Fraktur and other blackletter fonts available. Many of
the best ones are available from Linotype in Germany. If you think that a
Fraktur font should come installed on operating systems, you should
petition your OS developer.
I don't see that these font availability issues have anything to do with
Unicode.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit,
das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich
nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte.
... every image of the past that is not recognized by the
present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear
irretrievably.
Walter Benjamin
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