- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:08:53 +0100 (MET)
- To: Tim Rolands <trolands@truman.edu>, <www-font@w3.org>
On Feb 17, 2:16pm, Tim Rolands wrote: > Maybe because OpenType is a lot more than just an embedding solution. If > I understand it correctly, it will offer larger character sets, automatic > glyph substitution, and enhanced multilingual support (among other > things). Although these features may not mean much for the web, The web? As in, the World Wide Web? Your thoughts on how to lay out a Web page which contains portions in Arabic, without using automatic glyph substitution, would be appreciated. Of course, OpenType is not the only technology to offer such facilities. Apple's True Type GX springs to mind. But these facilities are needed for any Font solution for the World Wide Web And yes, you are correct: OpenType appears to be TrueType Open + DSig + Type1 glyph support. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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