Re: A single font can display ANY alphabet, pictograph, or rune

On Monday, October 10, 2005 6:39 PM CEST Isaac Penzev wrote:


> Jean-François Colson wrote:
>
>> I tried to compose some glyphs for my current conscript but there are
> still
>> many problems I have to fix.
>> More, I'll be in the train to Charleroi in less than 2 hours and I'll be
>> back home at 22 or perhaps 23 o'clock CEST.
>> Tomorrow I'll be away from 7:30 to 23 o'clock and I don't have a laptop
>> computer.
>> So you'll have to wait a few days if you want a heavier version of the
>> fonts.
>
> Thank you, Jean,
Hello Isaac,

My first name is Jean-François. Jean, François and Jean-François are three
separate names in French. Isn't there a difference between a screw, a driver
and a screw-driver? ;-) There are many names beginning with Jean:
Jean-François, Jean-Pol, Jean-Pierre, Jean-Marie, etc.

> it's not urgent. But if a certain system of tinkerfont is
> ever developed, it needs to be a kind of standard for sharing conscripts
> ;)
That's the most difficult part of the job.

>
>> I intend to make a new font (a Unicode font) with a 36 cells high matrix
> and
>> many curves - I'll put all those character pieces in the private use area
>> and I'll make a Keyman driver to type them easily.
>
> That sounds awesome,
That IS awesome. I've made the count of the glyphs I'd need, with all the
curves, and the 137472 code points of the primary and supplemtary private
use areas wouldn't be enough! More I don't have enough time to draw such a
huge number of glyphs.
But I've
> but I see certain problems with this: the string for
> encoding a single gliph becomes too long, plus each stroke will be encoded
> not in ASCII, but in Unicode, thus at least doubling the code if it is
> UTF,
> or making it eight times longer if it is hex HTML in &#x****; style.
>
Of course, but you can't have both universality and conciseness. Can you?


JF

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