From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 13:19:54 EST
On Dec 8, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> At least, IDC would really speed up the work of unification of various
> repertoire sources and help avoid duplicates. It seems that, even if
> IDC
> allows several compositions, a sort of canonical ideographic
> decomposition
> (not a NFD or NFKD decomposition!) could be created to match these
> characters with a precise 2D composition model based on IDC's.
>
There are too many ambiguities and other problems that make this wildly
impractical.
> Such database would also help the creation of ideographic fonts, by
> allowing
> to compose rapidly a first version of a complete Han font with very few
> glyphs for radicals or strokes (after this automatic step, it could be
> compared to carefully designed glyphs, to author the font with careful
> adjustments such as kerning, partial overlays, or small variations of
> stroke
> widths/length/angle.
> This would mean lower costs to develop a functional Han font.
>
Actually, IDSs are ill-suited for making fonts, since they
under-specify data. The CDL discussed at the last UTC is far, far
better, and other systems are actually used by font designers.
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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
jhjenkins@mac.com
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