Xref: utzoo comp.text.tex:6259 comp.fonts:2091 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!euler.claremont.edu!dhosek From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.fonts Subject: Re: (Font design) Do people really need these characters? Message-ID: <1991Mar17.182719.1@euler.claremont.edu> Date: 18 Mar 91 02:27:19 GMT References: Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Followup-To: comp.text.tex Organization: Harvey Mudd College Lines: 40 In article , Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) writes: > I'm designing a new, sanserif METAFONT font called Malvern, and I am > wondering just what characters I ought to be including -- space is > short. My aim is to include practically everything except maths and the > IPA, so I have small caps and med. caps, lots of figures, various > currency symbols, quote marks, daggers, punctuation, and diurse special > letters etc. I presume you'll let us all know when it's finished. > The proposed character encoding in TUGboat 11#4, includes an `eng' (the > letter `n', with a tail, used to mean an `ng' sound in the IPA) together > with its capital equivalent (a backwards `N' with a tail). What > language, if any, is this letter used in? It is listed in my printers' > dictionary as used in African languages -- but grouped with several > other IPA letters not included in the 11#4 encoding. My copy of Unicode indicates that it is used in Lappish and IPA (and ...) > The PostScript fonts and the 11#4 encoding include a per-mille sign > (which looks like % with the bottom bowl doubled) and 11#4 also has a > per-million sign (% with bottom bowl tripled)! Are these signs > *actually used*? Actually, I thought that 11#4 had a small zero for building the per-mille(ion) signs. Personally I'd just provide per mille and drop the zero. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.