From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 11:40:48 EST
On 11/07/2002 04:27:32 AM "William Overington" wrote:
>I may argue a point if I consider it right to do so, but I do not argue
>something just for the sake of arguing...
I didn't mean to suggest that you do.
>Once. A notification in a dialogue box that the problem exists
You're assuming there is a problem. If I send you a document and I wanted
it to display in Comic Sans but you don't have that font on your system,
so you end up seeing it in, say, Arial, does that merit a dialog box?
Perhaps, but systems just aren't working that way, and there apparently
hasn't been any great cry to make them do so. As for providing a
notification dialog to say that the text contains < c, ZWJ, t > but that
the font doesn't support it, there are no existing mechanisms to support
that at present, but it hasn't been demonstrated that there really is any
need, and I really don't expect vendors will be hearing too many
complaints from users.
>Thank you for explaining the matter about the TrueType fonts.
You're welcome.
- Peter
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