Re: Vai - Clarifications

--- "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> > >
> > >((And, computer engineers, don't start that
> > >bullshit about fonts accommodating thousands of
> > >characters -- in 1993 they couldn't. Period.))
> >
> > To produce the Vai encoding proposal, I used a
> > number of 8-bit fonts.
> > And one could do that in 1993 too. (In 1993 there
> > were no Vai fonts, though.)
>
> using more than one font for one script was utterly
> impractical. We tried it momentarily for one of the
> extended Arabics (Sindhi, probably), but quickly
> went to composite characters instead.

I don't think anybody was disparaging the solution
you used in your book. Nobody would be expected to
create a font from scratch for an exotic script for a
single use. Not even bullshit-starting engineers.

Andrew Dunbar.

> --
> Peter T. Daniels
> grammatim@...
>

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