Re: Unicode and math symbols

["Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>]

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Berthold K.P. Horn wrote:

>    The correct solution is to not have the system do the conversion
>    between character codepoints and glyph indices, but to leave that
>    to the font (which should know best). Quickdraw GX (from Apple) and
>    TrueType open are approaches to this, although I would prefer
>    it if the knowledge of the font about the mapping were available
>    as methods (in the OO sense) and not just as tables.
> 
> I don't agree with this.  GX hides under hood much of what a
> typesetting application needs to know about (such as ligatures).  
> The main idea behind GX is to add some apparent typesetting capabilities
> to dumb appications.  Useless for TeX.

I just said that GX and TT Open are going in the right direction.
But I agree that they don't go far enough. I already say what
I think is needed, see my other mail for more details about this.


Regards,	Martin.