RE: font selection was RE: JavaScript & Fonts

From: Tex Texin (textexin@xencraft.com)
Date: Mon Nov 09 2009 - 12:29:20 CST

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    The problem of having to dynamically identify a font based on the text to be
    displayed and the platform in use, is not restricted to plain-text.

    tex

    -----Original Message-----
    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
    Behalf Of Hans Aberg
    Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:30 AM
    To: Tex Texin
    Cc: 'Doug Ewell'; 'Unicode Mailing List'
    Subject: Re: font selection was RE: JavaScript & Fonts

    On 9 Nov 2009, at 05:40, Tex Texin wrote:

    > At some point, the allegation that a single font cannot support all
    > of Unicode becomes irrelevant.
    > It is fundamental to any system that it be capable of rendering the
    > characters it claims to support.
    > Font mapping and switching make this feasible, provided a suitable
    > set of fonts exist.

    It is mainly a problem with text-only (non-styled) text. Different
    fonts may support code areas differently with respect to quality and
    presence.

    So there one would want being able to create a virtual text font: a
    selection of characters from different fonts.

       Hans



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