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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Universal font standard
Message-ID: <7621@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Apr 88 23:36:04 GMT
References: <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: common

In article <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>Thus the problem is only to convert one computers format to and from 
>this format and universality is guarenteed between all other computers
>supporting this.

This is of course a good idea if you can make it work.
I've considered doing this myself, but haven't had time.
The main reason people keep inventing new, similar-but-different
font file formats is that the discover deficiencies in
existing formats.  I know several font file formats rather
well and can find something lacking in each (not always
the same something).

Perhaps you should start by trying to figure out some
standard way of designating characters.  If that problem
isn't solved, how could a font format standard work?