Re: OT: Georgian road signs (Re: OT: Dvorak)
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 27, 2008, 7:36 |
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:37:17 +1000, Tristan McLeay wrote:
>Modern fonts --- OpenType and Apple's AAT --- contain systems to deal
>with ligatures automatically, and more and more software copes with
>this.
That's how it should be. However, I have never found any blackletter font that would make
this. I guess that typeface is just not modern enough for anybody to create a modern
computer font. But then, the distinction between long ſ and short s probably goes beyond
the capabilities of OpenType or AAT – does it?
I was also quite disappointed when I saw that there's no possibility to use blackletter on the
internet except specifying a specific font and hoping other will use the same one.
--
grüess
mach
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