Well, the following page has “Full from £684.25” for the United Kingdom.
I suggested a need for a budget price software program.
However, how many alternate glyphs for a character will it support? It is not unreasonable to have several alternate glyphs for some characters, for example, lowercase g in a script-like font.
New technology is web based, not print based, so you can’t use glyph substitution features online. If Microsoft had a large investment in Pro-type fonts you might see it later rather than never.
Glyph substitution online. That is an interesting idea.
I did suggest, in the following post, an idea of mine, named Alternate Glyph Selectors, that could be applied to do that.
In order to become widespread the codepoints would need to be added into regular Unicode and then the idea implemented. A problem for use online would be that browsers that were not able to handle Alternate Glyph Selectors might display a .notdef glyph for an Alternate Glyph Selector, so there would be backward compatibility problems. However, for use with some web pages and emails, Alternate Glyph Selectors could be good.
William Overington
24 March 2009