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
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