Re: Odd Text Editor Behavior
Re: Odd Text Editor Behavior
- Subject: Re: Odd Text Editor Behavior
- From: Dave Opstad <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:11:43 -0700
On 8/17/05 8:30 AM, "Chris Espinosa" <email@hidden> wrote:
> You have an ancient cut of Monaco in your Fonts folder. This font has
> the twiddly bits turned on to apply automatic ligatures to certain
> character combinations (l/ and o/, for instance) as well as to
> automatically curl your single and double quotes. Very strange
> decisions for a monospace font, if you ask me, but there it is.
The year was 1992. We were young and foolish, and had just built an amazing
line layout engine and needed to show all the things it was capable of, even
if from our now-it's-thirteen-years-later perspective it seems foolish. So I
made the GXifier automatically add the "L" plus "/" becomes "Ł" and similar
rules, just to show off the new engine.
Remember that Unicode was still largely unknown at this point, and that the
TrueType standard 258 glyph repertoire contained the upper-case and
lower-case Lslash glyphs, but that standard MacRoman didn't map them. This
was a way to access those glyphs in any Latin application without having to
switch fonts and/or keyboards.
Ahh, memories of a more innocent time...
Dave Opstad
Line Layout Weenie Emeritus
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