Re: First Sentence in Piktok

Gary Shannon scripsit:

> 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.
TrueType fonts can contain up to 65536 glyphs, and each can be
assigned to one or more Unicode characters or combinations thereof.
If you think 6400 is a comfortable upper bound, then you can map
them to the Private Use Area of Unicode, and anyone with a modern
Windows, Unix, or Mac system can display text with your fonts.
Composing texts with a keyboard will be more tricky, as it will
require writing an input-method editor similar to that used for
Chinese.

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own
skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among
other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."  --Edsger Dijkstra

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