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Robin Fairbairns <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:20:44 +0100
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> On Thursday 17 July 2003 11:10, Torsten Bronger wrote:
>
> > Surprisingly enough, TeX is the most serious limitation at the
> > moment (of course also because it's so vital).  It's still the best
> > back-end for typesetting something, however its treatment of
> > so-called special characters, lack of true unicode support, and the
> > distinction text/math mode is really unfortunate.
>
> Wouldn't "true unicode support" require fonts with 64000 glyphs?

it needs fonts with as many glyphs as your documents need.  unicode
has more than one plane, now, anyway.

but you're right: the potential for type designers is awesome.

> And isn't it quite sensible to distinguish between text and maths?

i was wondering about that, too.  do you actually _do_ maths, torsten?

robin

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