Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watcgl!watsol!tbray
From: tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Exotic fonts for X, anyone?
Keywords: X.10, fonts, Greek, Hebrew, Astrology
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Date: 7 Jan 88 16:08:50 GMT
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Organization: New OED Project, U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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The Oxford English Dictionary has exotic requirements for text display.  It
includes a wide variety of Greek, Hebrew, and Anglo-Saxon text, as well as 
many chemical, astrological, diacritical marks, and other `miscellaneous' 
symbols.

We are in the process of creating X fonts to solve these problems, and would
be interested in hearing if anyone else has already addressed some or all of
these issues.  It seems likely that someone somewhere has already addressed
at least the Greek and Hebrew issues (anyone in Israel listening?).

Thanks in advance,
Tim Bray, New Oxford English Dictionary Project, U of Waterloo, Ontario