Re: Questions about proposed characters

From: Curtis Clark (jcclark@csupomona.edu)
Date: Sun May 30 1999 - 13:12:14 EDT

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At 03:11 AM 5/30/99 -0700, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>Unicode combining characters are supposed to fit over every character,
>just like the combining characters in TeX do. High-quality fonts contain
>information about the coordinates at which combining characters are to
>be placed around every character.

This makes perfect sense to me. What I wonder is, how is this implemented
in a TrueType font?

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