At 09:27 10/2/2001, John H. Jenkins wrote:
>The current generation of font tools does not generally allow the creation
>of a glyph in a font without assigning it a code-point of some sort. As a
>result, there are a number of fonts out there that have PUA code points
>assigned to them, but *not* as a means of promoting interchange of these
>glyphs in plain text, but as a means of easing the font production process.
That is about to change dramatically with the release of FontLab 4.0, in
which the presence or absence of codepoints for glyphs is explicit and
controlled by the font developer.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand.
- Harry Carter
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