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From: clive@d-supp.demon.co.uk (Clive Bruton/Typonaut)
Subject: Re: Need Font With Slashed "L" for Apache/Navajo
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>>   
>>      Clive Bruton,   clive@d-supp.demon.co.uk
>>   
>>   > Just to follow up my earlier assertion, there are both slashed "L"
and "l"
>>   > characters in the standard Adobe font sets, although they are in
the first
>>   > 32 characters of the set and may therefore not be available to all
>>   > operating systems.
>>   
>>   Ugh!  No.  They are unencoded characters.  
>>   
>>   I know that Fontographer has this silly encoding vector that places glyphs
>>   like that in fixed positions.  Thereby, totally subverting the wonderful 
>>   invention by Adobe of the encoding vector.  In Fontographer, `glyph names'
>>   are used merely as aliases for numeric character codes.


Well I think you know that I'm no Fontographer fan!


>>   
>>   Whether these glyphs are accessible or not is a matter of what encoding is
>>   used.  If the fonts are used `raw' (Adobe StandardEncoding) the glyphs are
>>   accessible.  If the fonts are used in Windows they are not accessible
>>   because all plain text fonts are reencoding to Windows ANSI.  If the fonts
>>   are used on a Mac, then these glyphs are not accessible because all plain
>>   text fonts are reencoded to Macintosh standard roman encoding.
>>   
>>   (Overall, Windows ANSI leaves 15 of the `standard' 228 glyphs in text fonts
>>   unencoded, while Mac roman encoding leaves 21 unencoded.)


Isn't that what I said?

But to be honest, it doesn't really matter much whether they are there or
not if your system can't access them.

Suppose we could all start editing our PostScript files. :-)


Clive Bruton

clive@d-supp.demon.co.uk
