On Tuesday 25 March 2003 06:32 pm, Chris Little wrote: > Except that this isn't possible. The greatest number of codepoints that > any font using current formats can support is 65k. I'm pretty sure we're > over that already, between points assign in the BMP & SMP.
Well this is a deficency on the part of the fonts and formats not unicode. And if you don't have need but of a handful of codepoints then it's indeed possible. In the example I gave about my fonts in BibleTime, I used Lucida Sans Unicode for all of them until I downloaded SIL fonts (or well as of this email I've still not done that yet as I'm lazy). > It would be pretty nice if Sword could better handle switching fonts based > on codepoint, but this seems logically to be best handled at render time > by the layout engine in use (so it's probably best left to front-ends). > The WebstersDict module actually isn't supported by any current font. > Code2000 catches almost everything, but there are some musical symbols > from the SMP that I have only seen in the Code2001 font. Even if we do handle it I think we should still not steal font rendering from the front ends, just provide better mechanisms for them to do it. -- --David's Mailing List and Spam Receiver Keeping me relatively spam free since 2002 _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
