On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 14:11, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Owen Taylor writes: > > > - If you use a postscript font with the standard Adobe Unicode > > character names for PUA codepoints > > This seems the way to go. Currently we use custom names, mostly for > hystorical reasons. I glanced at unicode music character names and > there are some provisions for music characters/glyphs, but those are > too simplistic for typesetting real world music, iirc. A collection > of music glyphs is not really the same thing as a text font. the "standard Unicode character names" that I was referring to are things like uni00E123. I forget the exact format, but you should be able to find it. > > - If you use an OpenType/CFF font (or TrueType font, but you seem > > to have Type1 outlines) with a Unicode character map. > > Yes, we have a Type1 font. Is it not possible to supply a Unicode > character map with a Type 1 font? My memory is that character maps in Type1 fonts are limited to 256 characters. If you need to go beyond that you can have CID-mapped fonts which are used for CJK, but I don't think are relevant here. But in any case, if the characters have the standard unicode names, I think FreeType can find them even without an explicit character map, so in some sense the way to provide a character map for a Type1 font is to give things the right names. Converting from Type1 to OpenType/CFF is pretty trivial using FontForge; you just need to load the font and save it again. Regards, Owen
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