holomap Verb, transitive. To provide, in relation to a glyph within a font
used in a computer system where such glyph is included in the font so as to
be accessed by a font table substitution route, a direct code point access
route to the glyph.
Word coined by William Overington on 31 July 2002
The word holomap is pronounced with the hol- as in the English word holly.
Examples of uses of the word holomap and words derived from it.
A font designer of an advanced format font may holomap a ligature glyph.
One could say that a font designer had holomapped the ffj glyph.
The code point is a holomapping for the glyph.
The code points in the golden ligatures collection are usable both as stand
alone code points for ligature glyphs in ordinary fonts and also as
holomappings for ligature glyphs in advanced format fonts.
Access to the ligature glyphs in the font is intended to be by use of ZWJ
sequences, yet the ligature glyphs have also been holomapped for the
convenience of people using the font on older equipment.
The word holomap seems to be a pleasant sounding word which is useful for
expressing a precise concept.
William Overington
3 August 2002
The golden ligatures collection referred to above is introduced and indexed
from the following page.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/golden.htm
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