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

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, 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 ;)

> 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, 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.

-- Yitzik

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