Re: Plane One use, was Re: HTML Validation

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 21:16:51 EST


At 11:40 12/16/2001, Curtis Clark wrote:

>2. How can I encode glyphs into Plane One? Is Fontlab 3 sufficient (I'm
>assuming in any case that I'll have to change something by hand).

No, FontLab 3.x will not write the necessary form of cmap to handle Plane
One characters, and nor will the recently released FontLab 4.0. I've asked
Yuri Yarmola, the FL developer, about this, but he has not yet encountered
sufficient demand for this functionality.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

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