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

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Henrik Theiling <theiling@A...> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Carsten Becker <naranoieati@B...> writes:
> >...
> > Um ... how would you type this in Tinker(toy)font:
> >
> >      /
> >      |
> >      |
> >  _   |
> > / \  |
> >   /  |
> >  / __|__
> >  \/  |  \
> >   \  \__/
> >
> > It's the letter for /ka/ in one of my alphabets. And worse,
> > this script uses diacritics.
> >...
>
> Maybe I'm overly pragmatic, but the only generic font I see is one
> that handle bezier curves directly.  I.e., graphics mode.  I would
not
> want to try how to figure out such a complex glyph with a
Tinkerfont,
> but provide a .gif file.  Is this too pragmatic?? :-)
>
> Anyway, as everyone with a monospaced font can see: ASCII art is
like
> tinkerfont as well. :-)
>
> **Henrik
>
To a program like Gary's, with a Master Grid (perhaps one with 100
points instead of just 25 -- each point specified by a digit-pair
instead of a letter) and your choice of size-orientation-and-shape of
pen-point, add the production of Bezier curves, with the quantization
requirement that each end-point and/or control-point must be one of
the points of the Master Grid.

That sounds, to me, so far, like it would have given me what I'd
wanted, if I'd been smart enough to program it in the first place.

-----

Tom H.C. in MI

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