Peter Constable wrote:

>
> > From: Peter T. Daniels [mailto:grammatim@...]
>
> > > So note, Peter D, fonts provided on the Mac *do* include eth and thorn.
> >
> > "Fonts provided on the Mac"? Is that what I was talking about?
>
> You said "Mac fonts", which is pretty general, and would most certainly
> include fonts provided on the Mac.

The "fonts provided on the Mac" (besides the city-named system fonts)
were bitmaps of Times, Palatino, a sans serif, and Zapf Chancery, IIRC.
I didn't realize that I needed to buy PostScript fonts to accompany them
(which were one of the "free options" that came with my first versions
of ATM, but I didn't see a reason for requesting them when they were
already on my computer ...).

Not long after, I was regularly using Fontographer to create maybe a
dozen of the fonts used in WWS (Coptic, Gothic, Oriya, Javanese, hPags
pa, three Syriacs, Mandaic, some of the silly ones in the back, a few
others). I'm quite familiar with the 223-character (255 less 32) font
block available. After WorldScript I was abandoned, it was rather
annoying to try to redo Syriac and Arabic to fit into those limitations
-- including all the pointings, many of which were left out of the Mac
Arabic font(s). Lloyd Anderson came up with lots of ways to fool the
System.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...