On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Hans Hagen
Alan Stone wrote:
Are fonts like men, or like women ? ;O)
fonts are simply complex ...
Ok, they're like women then. Alan
- no real consistency (esp in names) - complicted by the fact that we want (in tex) some coherent system - complicated even more by math - and by incomplete fonts - and ... - and ...
to some extend luatex/mkiv is making it a bit more convenient but even then ..
- fonts can have truckloads of features - and related bugs - and ...
Hans
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