Peter Constable wrote:

>
> > From: Peter T. Daniels [mailto:grammatim@...]
>
> > Unlike you, I'm not able to work for free, but those I do work for don't
> > pay me regularly or enough to buy new computers every few months.
>
> Who said anything about the past few months? How about the past decade?

There is an indefinitely large number of "few months" within the past
decade.

> I've been talking about font technologies that have been around longer
> than that, and common to both Mac and PC (though the Mac didn't use
> Unicode in a significant way before OS8.6 IIRC).
>
> If your Mac doesn't have fonts with the edh and thorn, my guess is that
> you must not have updated the system for at least five years, and if it
> is not capable of working with fonts that support edh and thorn, then
> you must not have updated the system since even longer.

This one's 8.6, the laptop is 9 (was 9.2 but something went awry). No
Unicode on either one. I have purchased additional RAM so I can run 10.3
Panther (which remains sealed in its box) on the laptop, but it won't be
installed until every bit of every job that's currently on it is done
with, so in case something goes wrong, I don't lose anything.

I don't know what you mean by "capable of working with fonts that
support edh and thorn." Of course I have several IE-oriented or
Gmc-oriented fonts that include edh and thorn (I made italic, bold, and
bold italic versions of them that are a lot better than those usually
seen in major publishers' works) and the system doesn't have the
slightest idea what glyph is represented in any particular character.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...