> From: Richard Wordingham [mailto:richard.wordingham@...]
> Interestingly, the Opentype Specification produced by Microsoft for
> the 'post' table refers to 'the 258 glyphs in the standard Macintosh
> TrueType font file', so all in all Peter Daniels does not seem so out
> of touch. This specification file is dated 22/3/01, and I seem to
> have downloaded it from Microsoft in September 2004.
In a nutshell, all that has to do with early Mac history. The Mac has
supported Unicode -- and fonts with Unicode cmaps -- for a number of
years now. What Peter Daniels has been saying about fonts on the Mac is
now dated and out of touch.
Peter Constable