Re: CHAT: Fonts (Re: CHAT: Constructed maps)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 25, 2007, 21:04 |
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On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:48:46 -0400, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>
wrote:
> If you use a Windows
> computer, there's considerably less freedom in how many glyphs
> you have, and where you can put them on the keyboard.
That's simply incorrect. 180 degrees out of phase, to be blunt.
In Windows, you have the full set of around 4,000,000,000 unassigned
Unicode characters at your disposal (assuming you need to exceed the
6400-character Private Use Area), and with Microsoft's own Keyboard Layout
Creator (a free download), you have the full power of the Windows IME
system at your disposal for mapping from keystrokes to glyphs. Add the
Graphite system from SIL (or the OpenType system from MS & Apple), and you
can construct infinitely-complex conjunct scripts (a-la Hangul) from their
individual building blocks on the fly in real time.
Paul
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