Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

From: Ken Whistler <kenwhistler_at_att.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 07:38:30 -0700

On 6/2/2015 2:01 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
> Local glyph memory, for use in compressing a document where the same
> glyph is used two or more times in the document:

Um, that technology already exists. It is called a "font".

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> A mechanism to be able to use the method to define a glyph linked to a
> Unicode code point would be a useful facility to add for use in a
> situation where the glyph is for a regular Unicode character.

And that mechanism has also already been defined. It is called a "cmap":

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/cmap.htm

--Ken
Received on Tue Jun 02 2015 - 09:39:59 CDT

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