Re: Unicode WYSIWYG - WYSIWYS campaign
Re: Unicode WYSIWYG - WYSIWYS campaign
- Subject: Re: Unicode WYSIWYG - WYSIWYS campaign
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:55:14 +0100
I wrote:
>First, 3rd generation font file formats are all multi-script. Adobe
Myriad Pro
>supports Western European / Central European, Cyrillic and Greek which
>gives me a Script Working Space.
>
>I can enter any Unicode co-ordinate I please in InDesign 3 using
Unicode
>Hex Input, but if my Script Working Space does not support it, the
co-ordinate
>does not exist to all intents and purposes.
It is simplest to understand the concept of a Script Working Space in
the light of a comparison between OS/X Safari / Mail and InDesign 3.
When Unicode Hex co-ordinates are entered in InDesign 3, Cooltype looks
to render them with the current Script Working Space font.
If it cannot render them (if the Script Working Space font does not
have glyphs that map to the co-ordinates), the co-ordinates are not
embedded in the PDF.
IMHO this is the behaviour one would expect. If there is no typographic
order of glyphs then there is no textual information.
InDesign 3 is organized by writing system into separate applications,
one for Western European, one for Middle Eastern and one for Far
Eastern writing systems.
OS/X Mail and Safari are in a different position as they must to try to
render any source text string whether from Brxnshxj or Bangkok.
When OS/X Safari / Mail get a string of characters, they searche all
the installed Apple Advanced Typography fonts for the glyphs that map
those character co-ordinates.
In other words they assign an assumed text to type rendering and use
the Last Resort Font for the co-ordinates they cannot render.
In this case it is more important to have font software that supports
as many writing systems as possible than to have font software that
expresses a typographic style.
Thanks,
Henrik
(PS Script Working Space is a non-Adobe concept, but it may help to
make multi-script table-based typography a bit more understandable.)
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