Re: Rhean site is up!

Roger Mills wrote:

>Jan van S. wrote:
>
>> (re use of Thryromanes in Mike Ellis' website)
>> And there's also another thing: not
>> everybody has Thryomanes or other Unicode fonts installed on his
>> computer, in which case all those IPA characters will be represented
>> as boxes or something similar. Now at least you can be sure that
>> people see it the way you want them to see it.
>>
>That's a good point, which I overlooked in my enthusiasm.  OTOH, it's easy
>enough to get from Herman Miller (and Mike also had a link), and at least
>IMO, more attractive for general purposes than Lucida Sans Unicode, the
>alternative on my computer.
>
>Curious: are older systems (like Win98) capable of handling those 2 fonts?
>(Not my problem, but it may affect others)
I'm still on Win98; Lucida Sans Unicode works, as does Arial Unicode. But
Thryomanes appears to be based on Garamond or something similar, and I've
always liked the look of Garamond.

M

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