From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 06:39:02 EST
At 02:53 AM 12/3/2003, Michael Everson wrote:
>>Such a font seems easy to create automatically by using the basic
>>glyphs of a base font containing the ASCII letters and digits, and
>>a source text file giving the name and range of Unicode code point
>>blocks, as well as a representative character or string.
>
>You don't know much about drawing fonts, evidently.
To be fair to Philippe, what he suggests isn't too far beyond what is
currently possible with the latest generation of Python-scriptable font tools.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
Theory set out to produce texts that could not be processed successfully
by the commonsensical assumptions that ordinary language puts into play.
There are texts of theory that resist meaning so powerfully ... that the
very process of failing to comprehend the text is part of what it has to offer
- Lentricchia & Mclaughlin, _Critical terms for literary study_
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