Re: [9fans] Re: Thai Chicken

["Chris Hollis-Locke" <chris@hollis-locke.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin C.Atkins" <martin@parvat.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Thai Chicken

...
> BTW: I don't see that Chris' arguments affect this, since I'm not
proposing
> mixing characters from Arial and Dunhill, but rather characters from Arial
> and Katakana, Hebrew, etc.... But maybe I'm not "getting" this problem,
either!
>

Just as there is more than one style of latin glyphs (Arial Vs Dunhill)
other language glyphs (Katakana, Hebrew etc.) can be presented in different
styles too.

If  you do want a Dunhill unicode font (heaven forbid!), what faces are you
going to choose to fill in the gaps?  What height should you choose?  The
stems on Dunhill mean that a simple height match will give very wide glyphs
for the non latin chars w.r.t the Dunhill glyphs..

Other attributes come into play too - consider a latin fixed width typeface,
if you pick up non-latin chars from a proportional-width font then your
lovely columnar output is messed up.

However, as usual, I was trying to solve everything.  A simple elegant
solution for 99% of the problem whips the arse of a complex solution to 100%
of the problem.  But I often forget this!

Chris.