Re: [xep-support] Adobe Glyph List question

From: Werner Donné (werner.donne@re.be)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 01:24:57 PST

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    Hi Nikolai,

    I did indeed refer to AGL 2.0, which is the file the XEP userguide points
    to. There are other examples such as "space"/"spacekackarabic",
    "nbspace"/"nonbreakingspace", "sfthyphen"/"softhyphen", "macron"/"overscore",
    etc. I have found the AGL 1.2 file and will base myself on that. Thanks!

    Regards,

    Werner.

    Nikolai Grigoriev wrote:
    > Hi Werner,
    >
    >
    >>The AGL is hard-wired in XEP. Because the AGL contains
    >>more than one glyph name for a number of Unicode code points,
    >>it is possible some glyphs in a font can't be found.
    >>If the font uses for example "Ohm" instead of "Omega", then the look-up
    >>might fail if XEP uses "Omega" for code point 0x2126. Does XEP try
    >>all the matching glyph names for a Unicode code point?
    >
    >
    > You probably refer to AGL 2.0, published in September 2002.
    > Hardwired in XEP is AGL 1.2; no glyph named "Ohm" was listed
    > there. Moreover, AGL 1.2 had inverse duplicates: two Unicodes
    > might correspond to a single glyph name, but not vice versa.
    >
    > Migrating to AGL 2.0 is not a mechanical task: there are too may
    > incompatible changes there. To stay with your example: AGL 1.2
    > recommended "Omega" for both 0x2126 (Ohm sign) and 0x03A9
    > (Greek capital omega). AGL 2.0 has "Ohm" and "Omega" as
    > synonyms for 0x2126, and prescribes "Omegagreek" for 0x03A9.
    > We definitely plan to shift to 2.0 in some not very distant future;
    > but it requires some caution, and will inevitably take more time.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Nikolai
    >
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