Xref: utzoo comp.text.tex:6261 comp.fonts:2093 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!Damian.Cugley From: Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.fonts Subject: Re: (Font design) People do really need these characters! :-) Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 17:29:42 GMT References: <1991Mar17.182719.1@euler.claremont.edu> Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Lines: 28 In-reply-to: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu's message of 18 Mar 91 02:27:19 GMT Thanks to the people who replied -- the consensus is that eng is needed to write Lappish and per-mille is needed to write German and Scandinavian drink-driving laws :-). So they are in. No votes for the single-guillemets yet, poor things. From: Don Hosek Message-Id: <1991Mar17.182719.1@euler.claremont.edu> > 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. Well, yes -- this is why I was half-convinced that the "p.p.m." symbol was due to "coolness" rather than anyone actually needing them. (Ditto the spare hyphen.) Because I'm going for a rather trippy per-cent sign (more like Courier's than Helvetica's), I probably will make per-mille fairly different from it... Damian //- Damian Cugley ---------------------------------------------------\ || Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 11 Keble Rd, Oxford, UK || || pdc@prg.ox.ac.uk or pdc@uk.ac.ox.prg in UK "Be nice to people" || \-------------------------------------------------------------------//