From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 08:01:37 EST
Michael Everson
> Please stop discussing font design, Philippe, if you wish to
> avoid offence.
Sorry, I did not intend this message to be addressed at you, as you are
certainly a responctable typographer, and even if I know that you designed
the LastResort font glyphs for Apple. (Is this font only available for Mac
and shipped licensed with Mac OS?). And was not a personnal offence against
someone.
Well, I don't know if the LastResort font can be used on other systems like
Windows, the same way as on the Mac as a last resort font for missing
glyphs, as I did not see where in Windows one could specify a ordered stack
of prefered fonts for a particular script, as the current Windows/IE GUI
only allows specifying 1 font per script.
My opinion is that Windows (and even MacOSX or other GUIs) could be even
more user-friendly, by allowing creating such stack of preferred fonts per
script, or at least a single ordered stack of fonts for characters not found
in the unique font specified for each script, this stack acting as the
equivalent of a "LastResort" virtual font.
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