From: Ernest Cline (ernestcline@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 15:09:35 CDT
> [Original Message]
> From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
>
> At 14:55 -0400 2004-05-25, Ernest Cline wrote:
>
> >Based on the example of the 11 point checker font given in
> >Figure 11, NamesList.txt should include glosses as follows:
> >
> >1FF36 WHITE DRAUGHTS MAN
> > x (white medium circle - 26AA)
> >1FF37 WHITE DRAUGHTS KING
> > x (bullseye - 25CE)
> >1FF38 BLACK DRAUGHTS MAN
> > x (black medium circle - 26AB)
> >1FF39 BLACK DRAUGHTS KING
> > x (fisheye -25C9)
>
> I would reject such a unification (though I see that glosses to dot
> imply a unification). Certainly those are not the traditional shapes
> used; the larger 3D ones are by far and away more common.
> Indeed I have never seen the tiny ones in use. 11 point is very
> small in lead type, that is why they made use of those sorts
> (which were doubtless created for very different purposes).
I don't see it as a unification at all, but merely pointing out that
there are other characters whose range of glyphs overlaps
with the range of glyphs of the draughts characters. The
representative glyphs should of course be the 3D versions.
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