Andrew Dunbar wrote:

>
> --- "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.

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I haven't seen exactly a stampede to use my Meroitic, Ogham, Gothic,
Kharoshthi, Oriya, Lepcha, Phagspa, Javanese, Hanunoo, Samaritan, Syriac
(3x), Buryat, Pollard, Fraser, Semaphore, and Braille fonts; I created
all of them for WWS. My Coptic and Mandaic have been used by others. I
think I left out some where I finished what others had begun, and the
Arabic family was a joint effort.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...