Re: Stix beta fonts released

From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 21:40:36 CST

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    The font STIXNonUni.otf contains PUA characters, most of which appear
    to be already in uniocode in some form or another. I am not clear what
    the intended function of these is, they may just be legacy, or
    precomposed glyphs.

    John

    Quoting James Kass <thunder-bird@earthlink.net>:

    >
    > Download, un-ZIP, and install font(s).
    >
    > BabelPad has a sophisticated font analysis tool which can,
    > among other things, copy all the characters from a selected
    > font to the clipboard. Pasting that into a new plain text
    > file lists the characters by code point, font glyph, and
    > Unicode name.
    >
    > I have tried this with the general font, and it looks like
    > there are some mappings which aren't yet official:
    >
    > (partial listing follows)
    > U+2B18 ? DIAMOND WITH TOP HALF BLACK
    > U+2B19 ? DIAMOND WITH BOTTOM HALF BLACK
    > U+2B1A ? DOTTED SQUARE
    > U+2B1B ? <reserved>
    > U+2B1C ? <reserved>
    > U+2B1D ? <reserved>
    > U+2B1E ? <reserved>
    > U+2B1F ? <reserved>
    > U+2B20 ? WHITE PENTAGON
    > U+2B21 ? WHITE HEXAGON
    > U+2B22 ? BLACK HEXAGON
    > U+2B23 ? HORIZONTAL BLACK HEXAGON
    > U+2B24 ? <reserved>
    > U+2B25 ? <reserved>
    > U+2B26 ? <reserved>
    > U+2B27 ? <reserved>
    > ... several more <reserved> positions snipped
    >
    > The font is pleasing in appearance.
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    > James Kass
    >
    >
    >
    >

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