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Subject:    Re: [I18n]Re: ISO 10646 Fonts and XFontSet question
From:       Martin Duerst <duerst () w3 ! org>
Date:       2001-08-27 1:20:31
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For the topic of how to combine various fonts in a flexible way,
you may be interested to read my paper (coauthored with Marc-Antoine
Parent): "Font Selection and Font Composition for Unicode" at
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/mml/mduerst/papers/PS/FontComposition.ps.gz

Dates from 1995, but not outdated yet, I guess.

Regards,    Martin.


At 13:11 01/08/26 +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> > In one way I'm suprised that there has been complete silence about
> > the incomplete *-iso10646-1 fonts.
>
>What should be said about the topic?
>
>Incomplete ISO 10646-1 fonts are not a temporary state. They are here to
>stay. It is typographically nonsense to expect a single font style to
>aggregate all scripts and symbols on this planet. It is economicaly,
>practically and aesthetically infeasible to give each UCS font complete
>coverage.

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