[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unicode only provides a way of specifying character codes for a wide
variety of symbols in the interior of a text file.  But without font files
containing the order of 64K symbols, the current fragmented font-file
situation will continue to limit what can easily be output to a screen
or a printer.  It is difficult for me to share your optimism.

That's not a problem, at least, not on Linux. Pango does a wonderful job of inspecting the coverage of each font. It substitutes whichever font has the glyphs that are required to print the text. See for example

 http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/input/out-www/typography-demo.png

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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen


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