On 5/9/12 3:23 AM, "Philip Thomas" <philip.tho...@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>><philip.tho...@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>
>>> And by the way, what is the relationship between Feta and Emmentaler?
>
>Han-Wen
>Nienhuys replied:
>
>>feta was the original Type1 font. Since Type1 fonts can only hold 256
>>entries, we had several of
>them. Later we unified them into
>>Emmentaler ("a big cheese") which has all the glyphs in a single font.
>
>Nice! --
>especially since "feta" cheese has been a protected designation of origin
>product in the European Union since 2002,
>whereas the name "Emmentaler" is not protected and thus available for any
>cheesemaker to use. The metaphor can easily
>get stretched too far, though: Emmentaler cheese is characteristically
>full of holes ...
And the Emmentaler font is also full of holes. It doesn't cover all of
the standard code points.....
Thanks,
Carl
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