Re: First Sentence in Piktok

En réponse à Gary Shannon :


>I'll take another look.  I doubt I'll make a font out
>of my glyphs since there are likely to be thousands of
>them by the time I'm done, and fonts are strictly
>limited to the number of characters they may contain,
>and each charatcer must be assigned to a particular
>key stroke.
You know nothing about fonts do you? As already stated, True Type fonts can 
contain up to 65536 characters (how can explain that Times New Roman 
contains so many characters otherwise? And what about Arial MS Unicode? :)) 
), and the very idea that exach character of a font must be assigned a 
particular keystroke I don't know where you can have got it. Never heard of 
the ALT-XXXX codes? Do you really think Chinese and Japanese people use 
keyboards with thousands of keys? ;)))))

As for METAFONT fonts, they are used only with TeX and LaTeX, and as such 
for those fonts the very idea of keystrokes just doesn't exist. To use a 
font you usually need to make also a LaTeX package which will map the 
source code you write to the fonts you use. And even though METAFONT fonts 
are limited to 255 characters, nothing prevents you from making more than 
one font for the same script. The package will handle everything 
transparently for the user. Making fonts for scripts of more than 255 
characters will be the subject of a later lesson in my tutorial anyway.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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