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

On Friday, October 14, 2005 2:30 PM CEST, Isaac Penzev wrote:


> Jean-François Colson wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I beg your pardon.
There's no problem.

> I did not know that French naming system is different
> from Anglo-Saxon and Ukrainian.
Really different?

> I thought it was TWO NAMES together.
                                                                See the
brackets after my signature.

Haven't you noticed the hyphen in my first name? What's a hyphen? Following
www.dictionary.com, that's "a punctuation mark (-) used between the parts of
a compound word or name or between the syllables of a word, especially when
divided at the end of a line of text." "Used between the parts of a compound
word" means that's a single word, in this case a person's name, made of two
elements.
On the same site there's an etymology note: "from Greek huphen, a sign
indicating a compound or two words WHICH ARE TO BE READ AS ONE".
But be quiet. That's not the first time I've been named Jean or Jean F, and
surely not the last.
If you can't type the c with cedilla, simply type JF, that's even shorter
than Jean and that's often used, mainly in writing.

> Just
> like my friend Robert Lee Short may be called Robert, Robert Lee, Lee, or
> simply Bob.
Of course there are a few pet names in French too, but there are a certain
amount of names for which there aren't.
For example a few years ago I knew a person named Albert. Many people called
him Bébert. A common pet name for Anne is Nanette (or Nannette? I'm not sure
of the spelling). My stepmother's name is Catherine but almost everyone call
her Cathy.
BTW Natasha is a pet name for Natalia in Russian. Right? But in French
Natacha and Nathalie are used as two separate names.
And the Albert I quoted above, isn't it a compound of Al and Bert written in
one word?

> Or my wife's ex-boss has a daughter Anastasiya-Kateryna: for one
> of grannies she is Nastya, and for another Katya :-)
>
>> > 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.
>
> Anyway, I was able to encode all Latin and Cyrillic minuscules without any
> troubles.
>
>> 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.
>
> I think all we need is APPROXIMATION, in case of precise gliph we may
> share
> pictures ;)
>
>> Of course, but you can't have both universality and conciseness. Can you?
>
> Asymptoticly yes.
>
> -- Yitzik
>
>

Jean-François Daniel Jacques Nicolas Colson, aka JF ;-)

(These are my four first names and my last name, but nearly no one knows my
last three first names.)   ;-)

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