From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 10:27:06 EDT
On 18/07/2003 06:21, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>But for these Asian languages, I think it's best to have fonts designed to
>handle correctly their corresponding scripts, instead of a giant font poorly
>hinted for readability at small sizes, and without support of common
>ligatures.
>
Agreed. Giant fonts have their uses, e.g. Arial Unicode MS and Code2000
let me get a flavour of complex script pages which I browse to on the
Internet, often by mistake, without having to install special fonts for
scripts I don't read. But publication of official documents is not one
of those uses. Software needs to include good font substitution procedures.
-- Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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