From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Mon Apr 25 2005 - 10:42:54 CST
At 12:41 +0100 2005/04/25, Arcane Jill wrote:
>I did not know about that. but since you pointed it out, I looked it
>up. It seems that all about web fonts, and the definition of how it
>all will work, is described at
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-webfonts-20020802/.
>
>Hans: if this mechanism works, you won't need an infinite number of
>codepoints, since, if you can place your desired glyphs inside a web
>font with PUA codepoints, they will display correctly on all
>browsers (or at least, all browsers which support web fonts).
I think the natural evolution is to add to a universal character set
also abstract characters than can describe the two (or higher
dimensional) layouts used in math and music. The problem is how to do
it intelligently; some research is probably needed here. Then a
principle I suggested as to what should be considered an abstract
character is that is a semantic unit that in some sense is atomic. If
one wants a good two-dimensional layout, the problem is to find a
good set of atoms.
-- Hans Aberg
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