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

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. I did not know that French naming system is different
from Anglo-Saxon and Ukrainian. I thought it was TWO NAMES together. Just
like my friend Robert Lee Short may be called Robert, Robert Lee, Lee, or
simply Bob. 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

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