From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 20:24:36 EST
William Overington wrote:
> > I have added a new code recently, which is U+E700 STAFF which is a vertical
> > line from the very top of the glyph and going as far below the 0 line
> as one
> > chooses for a particular font. With Quest text I encoded this character
> > early with a line going vertically from -768 font units to 2048 font units.
And the purpose of this is? As James Kass points out, why not use U+2502?
There are technical reasons involving the VDMX table why one might put a
full-height glyph in a TrueType font, but typically one doesn't want this
glyph to be encoded since its only purpose is to prevent random scaling
interpolation.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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the cursed owners of books should be persuaded
to make them available to us, either by argument
or by force. - Michael Apostolis, 1467
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