Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- Subject: Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:50:26 +0200
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 11:58 , Charles Srstka wrote:
But it is very important to have an easy and intuitive way to type
non-standard characters into a text document...
Nobody argues this.
But it does *absolutely nothing* to do with fonts; it's a question of
having (a) a good keyboard support, (b) a good support for switching them,
(c) a good support for defining one's own, (d) a good support for extra
input methods (like "pop up a window containing a complete charset and
select whant you want to").
As for (a) and (c), Apple had it in the NeXTStep keyboard support and
Keyboard.app application, but for reasons utterly incomprehensible
abandoned it in favour of many times worse OS9-based thing (to define your
own keyboard in OSX you have to be a very experienced resource wizard with
root access -- no newbie ever can do that).
As for (b), there was a nice support in NeXTStep too, avaialable for
programmers -- I was one of those who have written a gUI over it,
including such things as automatically switching keyboards regarding which
application is active and more. So far as I know, I can't do this for OSX.
As for (d), the support is there for programmers. Well, I think Apple
should provide a nice Input Manager itself (not just a programmer's demo
which allows you to enter hex unicode, but a full-featured thing allowing
to search for characters and define one's own pages with favourite ones,
built and bundled in standard OSX installation. Nevertheless, if they don'
t, any programmer can -- if I needed that (which I don't), or if somebody
ordered it, I can do it easily myself. The keyword is Input Manager.
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