Re: I want to make my own Unicode OTFs

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From: Hilbert A. (NoSpam_at_NoSpam.Net)
Date: 07/06/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:44:52 +0100

Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:08:46 +0100, "Hilbert A." <NoSpam@NoSpam.Net>
> wrote:
>
>>[snip]
>>Please download some Decorative chinese fonts, write some chinese mixed
>>with english and you will fully understand the meaning Font Style and
>>may be Font too.
>>[snip]
>
>
> I must say, I sympathize somewhat with Herbert here. If I understand
> correctly, his frustration is that there is no one font style that
> covers all of unicode. So if you want to disparate parts of the table,
> you'll end up with a document with the equivalent of Arial for one
> sentence and Times for another (for example).
>
> I think the answer here is that there is no one font style that
> includes all of Unicode consistantly. Making one would be a massive
> undertaking, considering that there are over 1 million possible
> characters.
>
> What this means for future typography, I'm not sure, but for now, you
> might need to settle for fonts that are "close enough".
>
> - Joel

You got the full meaning and translated it to English.
Thanks

HA