--- jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
> 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.
>
WOW! I didn't know that. I'll certainly have to dig
into it more deeply. That would be an interesting way
to approach it.
--gary
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> "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