- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:14:24 -0700
- To: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Martin J. Duerst wrote: > NO! Characters are not images. You may not be aware of it, but > there is some processing done between characters (as they are > encoded) and glyphs (as they appear on screen or paper). In > Arabic or in Indic scripts, this processing is quite important. Right. I wrote "characters" when I meant "glyphs", as was pointed out to me in a private post. Sorry, I should have qualified that sooner. The character glyphs are simply inline images with a few additional metrics. (Ideally, PNGs with transparent background to accommodate antialiasing.) David Perrell
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