From: Patrick Gundlach <patrick@gundla.ch>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Apple Emoji (was: Smileys)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:29:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <252E49DC-1D1B-4196-A54C-3F33F3BDF06C@gundla.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110817145414.GD11986@khaled-laptop>
> It is a bitmap format, a sort of quick and dirty hack by Apple to please
> certain markets and it shouldn't concern a typesetting system
I think we should leave it up to the users what they think about using a font like this in typesetting. "640k ought to be enough for anybody"…
:)
I'd like to have "my" typesetting system to be capable of what users demands and not what I think is good for them.
(But this is not a feature request)
Patrick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-17 11:08 Mojca Miklavec
2011-08-17 14:54 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-08-17 15:29 ` Patrick Gundlach [this message]
2011-08-17 16:17 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-08-17 22:15 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-08-18 7:09 ` Martin Schröder
2011-08-18 7:31 ` Apple Emoji Hans Hagen
2011-08-18 7:38 ` Hans Hagen
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