Re: Why people still want to encode precomposed letters

From: Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD (pzi@ingerman.org)
Date: Thu Nov 27 2008 - 07:14:18 CST

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    Agreed. After all, in the days when my father hand-set type, 72 points
    was 0.9958 inches ... and, thanks to computers, it's now 1.0000 inches
    because it's more convenient. Pfui!

    Peter Ingerman

    Christopher Fynn wrote:

    > verdy_p wrote:
    > ..
    >
    >> I remain convinced that 'kerning' should concern all types of
    >> pair-specific position adjustment of anchors, i.e. the difference of
    >> position between the default position indicated by a single glyph id
    >> alone, be it horizontal, or vertical or both, and independatly of the
    >> type of anchor considered (for the horizontal advance width in a
    >> horizontal layout of characters in horizontal orientation, or for any
    >> other types of anchors, including bounding box definition anchors and
    >> caret positioning anchors for editing that may sometimes be within
    >> the bounding box).
    >
    >
    > ...
    >
    > Please, whatever your convictions, let typographers, type designers,
    > typesetters, and others who work intimately with type on a day to day
    > basis define the meaning and scope of terms like 'kern'. Terms from
    > that field of expertise should not be defined by what computer
    > programmers, character encoding specialists and others think they
    > should mean.
    >
    > - Chris
    >
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