- From: Martin J. Dürst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:59:44 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- cc: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>, Brad Chase <bchase@bitstream.com>, www-font@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Chris Lilley wrote: > On Aug 21, 9:15pm, Todd Fahrner wrote: > > > I thought a major strength of live text/fonts over artwork was that the > > former could be searched, cut-and-pasted, etc. Yet here you've got "X" > > invoking a "Qu" ligature. > > Sigh. The Microsoft pages have whole words represented by a single letter. > > Lets all repeat, after three, "A sequence of bytes is not a sequence of > characters is not a sequence of glyph identifiers". > > And then, "I will map my Pi characters to the Unicode Private Use Area". This is one possibility, but it's confusing. I guess we should go one step further. What about adding some attributes to OBJECT, so that we can say: <OBJECT PI-FONT="Bundesbahn" GLYPH-IDENTIFIER="47">Alt Gif goes here</OBJECT> For a font with only one glyph, GLYPH-IDENTIFIER could be left out. Probably we would also need a size attribute, but I guess the right way to provide it, as well as other presentation attributes, would be via style. Chris, should I submit this proposal to the HTML WG? Regards, Martin.
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