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Re: reports of Lout's death somewhat exaggerated
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Jeff Kingston |
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Re: reports of Lout's death somewhat exaggerated |
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Tue, 13 Oct 2015 07:24:57 +1100 |
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Hi Mat,
> lout knows nothing about fonts (all that fiddling with
> fonts via external tools should be done IMHO by fontconfig,
> freetype and its friends),
I'm not qualified to comment here. After all this time I still
know practically nothing about fonts, except that I don't believe
in them. I've got just one thing to say to people who think that
fonts are good: kerning subscripts.
> and (especially painful to me) it
> knows nothing about the world behind the ISO-8859-1 bubble
> (which is probably more limitation of PostScript; is there such
> a thing as Unicode in PostScript?).
Yes, the orginal Lout predated Unicode, and then it never got
pushed into it by any developments in PostScript. A huge
weakness I agree.
Jeff Kingston
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