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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:04:23 -0700
From: "Jack Johnson" <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters
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On 5/21/06, Joel Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know that there's a way to manage this complexity without
> giving "fonts" their own context-aware programming language, like
> TrueType.

What are the chances something like Display PostScript could've been
massaged to handle this?  Or is it really something to look at on a
font-by-font basis?

-Jack