From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 17:52:55 EDT
At 17:26 -0400 2003-08-19, John Cowan wrote:
>Michael Everson scripsit:
>
>> No. It generates much much better glyphs than that. See
>> http://developer.apple.com/fonts/LastResortFont/
>
>Out of mild curiosity: (a) what font did you use to create the legends
>in the frame of each glyph;
Chicago.
>(b) are all the various representative glyphs
>drawn from a common font, and if so, which one?
Of course they were not. No such font exists.
>Defect reports based on the 236-page PDF:
>
>p. 17 (Thaana): the bottom of the frame reads "THAAN" with a broken glyph
>following.
>
>p. 18 (Phoenician): the top of the frame reads "OENECIAN", the bottom is
>blank, and the rest of the glyph is black.
>
>p. 55 (Pahawh): bottom of frame is blank.
>
>p. 63 (Syloti Nagri): both top and bottom read "SILOTI NAGRI".
>
>p. 171 (Brahmi): both top and bottom read "BRAMHI".
I will look into all of that, and thank you for it; but note that of
those only Thaana can be expected to display, as none of the others
have been encoded. So none of those could EVER be displayed; they are
just extra glyphs in the current font.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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