Re: VMs: For this MONKEY: Help, pointers, etc. please: Unicode, TrueType fonts, kerning

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 2:08 am, Jacques Guy wrote:

> Take kerning. Is there anything like vertical
> kerning? So that, for instance, a hyphen,
> vertically "kerned" above an 'a', would give
> and a+macron?

Hmm... Doesn't typing accents and funny :-) combinations (as in Spanish) 
involve a character substitution?
I.e. <'> followed by <a> ends up with <a> with an accent on top. The 
accentuated <a> is just another character, mapped by the <'><a> sequence of 
keystrokes.
I think that this was also the method used in Japanese word processors (Ichi 
Tarou comes to mind). The front end would change romaji into hiragana 
automatically and by pressing space, from hiragana into a list of possible 
kanji combinations.

You could make a font set that holds all the 'kerned' combinations and select 
those characters based on a unique sequence. Or, the poor-man's version could 
be based on a macro language translation in Openoffice or Word.
The advantage of that is it could be made reversible (writing another macro) 
or even with Bitrans ;-), if there are not more than 255 characters.
I hope it helps. 
Cheers,

Gabriel


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