Re: System fonts

[Sungjin Chun]

Good, that's what I want to say :-) I hope I can set the range or like 
things in nfont.

On Aug 26, 2004, at 6:50 PM, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:22:30 +0900, Sungjin Chun <chunsj@embian.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > The problem is that for example, almost all rather good quality Korean
> > fonts are
> > proprietary, so we cannot mix them with FreeSans like free Latin 
> > fonts.
> > Also, Korean
> > fonts, like Chinese fonts, are hard to make compared to latin ones.
> > (There are many
> > number of glyphs in these fonts, for example Korean fonts needs more
> > that 17,000
> > glyphs for single fonts, I think chinese needs more) For these 
> > reasons,
> > we need
> > font substitution. Maybe I'm wrong :-)
>
> I don't think this require back-end glyph substitution. There should 
> be a way
> to do this in AppKit. Making a new font type would break WYSIWYG and is
> confusing other apps that want to share/print the document. My 
> solution is
> providing the range of the characters that you want to use in nfont. 
> And AppKit
> consult this range and won't use the character outside the range so it 
> will
> pick glyphs from another font in AppKit level (ie. latin glyphs).
> ]d