RE: Windows/Office XP question

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 23:21:43 EDT


Mark,

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> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
> Behalf Of Mark Davis
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 7:50 AM
> To: Chris Pratley; Unicode
> Subject: Re: Windows/Office XP question
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>
> Chris, I understand (and agree) with your recommendations. One
> feature that
> some systems have is composite fonts, where the "font" is actually a table
> of subfonts in some order (perhaps with specific ranges assigned to each).
> That way, someone can have the advantage of specifying a single font name,
> and get a full repertoire, without requiring a monster font. Of course,
> there may be little uniformity of style across scripts, or in mixtures of
> symbols, but at least you can get legible characters instead of boxes.
>
> Are there any plans to do something like that in Windows?

You can use mlang to do font linking. It will take two or more fonts and create a dymamic combined font.

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