Re: A Font for Pictographs

Well, sure, but at that point, you might as well just send them�the font, since it
will still require sending a file, downloading it,�and installing
it.��Plus, I've had no luck with Ukulele; it just never worked for me.
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Morrison��http://dedalvs.free.fr/��On Dec 14, 2008, at 10∞54 AM, Alex
Fink wrote:��> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:25:53 -0800, David J. Peterson�>
<dedalvs@...> wrote:�>�>> Oh, this doesn't have to do with sharing
documents--THAT is�>> impossible (or, at least, using the filetype that one
uses in�>> creating�>> the document). This is just for personal use on the
Mac.�>�> But that's exactly what keyboard layouts are for -- you know,
the�> things�> that in OS X you can select from in the Input Menu tab
of�> International�> System Preferences. A keyboard layout can change the
binding of�> any key�> combination arbitrarily; there is no God-given
mapping from�> combinations of�> keys you press to a Unicode entity, and
changing the mapping is the�> capital-R Right way to do it in today's
technology, not messing�> with the�> font. So you could, for instance, make
one (with Ukelele, per JF�> Colson)�> that maps every keystroke to the
value of the character it belongs�> to in�> DaveIPA, and then use it with
any Unicode font you desire.�>�> Someone round here once made a keylayout
for X-SAMPA. But it�> didn't work�> for me, for whatever reason; and now I
can't even Google it up again.�>�> Alex�