Re: Font embedding

Boudewijn Rempt and I wrote:

Me> the reader download and install a supplied font), would be much easie=
r
to
Me> handle with font embedding, don't you think?

BR> Well, yes, for at least part of the audience. I don't think we will s=
ee
BR> a single standard for font embedding anytime soon, and even then, if =
I
were
BR> running a Windows box, I'd be more than wary of looking at documents
with
BR> embedded TrueType fonts. The TrueType stuff is part of the kernel

I take your point - I suppose that Type 1s are safer in this respect?


BR> scripts I'd prefer a good gif and a downloadable font mapped to
somewhere in
BR> the more private parts of Unicode.

Actually, I've gone down the many-tiny-gifs route myself for my Rahha pag=
es
(in preparation, not available yet). I wrote a small program which genera=
tes
the HTML and IMG tags required to display the text in the Rahha script; I
just type in the text in the Latin transcription, click the button and th=
e
HTML is all done for me. The only problem, of course, is that although th=
e
gifs are tiny and therefore download really quickly, the page HTML itself
quickly becomes vast, resulting in slow downloads. Oh well.


Me> In the past when I was on Conlang, I couldn't write Jameld words like
Me> "eskr=EFrem=E4" properly, but had to use colons and other mank (as ab=
ove),
Me> because most listmembers would receive something like "eskr$rem{".

BR> It should be - but this is software after all. I'm using a system tha=
t
BR> has parts that are about as old as I am myself... I'm typing this
message
BR> in an editor which has copyrights in its source going back to 1980 - =
but
BR> it does show eskr=EFrem=E4 correctly, and I can type the letters too.

They seem to be getting through intact now, which is grave news for umlau=
t
fans (sorry, periphonyphiles).

James

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