Re: A Pictographic system that makes fonts obsolete

Gary Shannon wrote:
> Toying around with a different way to tell software
> how to draw a pictographic character:
>
> http://fiziwig.com/ptgylph2.html
>
> Fonts may not be the right way to go for pictographic
> languages since they were initially designed for
> alphabetic languages, and have to be coerced into
> fitting ideograms or pictograms.
That's kind of how vector fonts work, AIUI. You seem to be saying that
Piktok should be encoded by a sequence of vector glyph descriptions,
instead of keeping glyphs and abstract characters notionally separate.
Is that right?

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