Re: Localizable Sentences Experiment font support
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 1:04 pm
I have for some time been writing a novel based around my ideas on using encoded localizable sentences for communication through the language barrier.
I have been publishing each chapter on the web as I proceed. Each chapter is published in PDF (Portable Document Format) format. There is no overall plan for the novel, I just tried to start writing. As I proceeded I have been sending each chapter to the British Library as an email attachment for legal deposit and receipt has been acknowledged, so the novel is archived as part of the British Library's collection.
Some readers of this thread may like Chapter 5 of the novel where there are a number of illustrations of symbols, each symbol designed by me and included in the PDF document by using a font that I made using Font Creator.
29.90 kilobytes
The illustrations are included direct from a font (that is, not by making a png graphic and embedding the graphic in the PDF document) and I used a Private Use Area mapping for the symbols.
I find it interesting that this is only possible because of the way that (many? all?) personal computer operating systems these days are designed so that fonts are all in a common font folder and application programs each use fonts from that common folder and that the same font formats are used by (many? all?) producers of software packages.
If any reader would like to have a look at the rest of the novel, there is a web page from which all the chapters and a few other files are linked, though most of the novel does not feature fonts and the novel also ranges over other topics as well as localizable sentences, yet maybe some readers might enjoy the novel and find interest in the topics that are mentioned.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/locse_novel.htm
William Overington
Friday 17 February 2017
Edited on Friday 3 March 2017 to include the size of the PDF document as being 29.90 kilobytes.
I have been publishing each chapter on the web as I proceed. Each chapter is published in PDF (Portable Document Format) format. There is no overall plan for the novel, I just tried to start writing. As I proceeded I have been sending each chapter to the British Library as an email attachment for legal deposit and receipt has been acknowledged, so the novel is archived as part of the British Library's collection.
Some readers of this thread may like Chapter 5 of the novel where there are a number of illustrations of symbols, each symbol designed by me and included in the PDF document by using a font that I made using Font Creator.
29.90 kilobytes
The illustrations are included direct from a font (that is, not by making a png graphic and embedding the graphic in the PDF document) and I used a Private Use Area mapping for the symbols.
I find it interesting that this is only possible because of the way that (many? all?) personal computer operating systems these days are designed so that fonts are all in a common font folder and application programs each use fonts from that common folder and that the same font formats are used by (many? all?) producers of software packages.
If any reader would like to have a look at the rest of the novel, there is a web page from which all the chapters and a few other files are linked, though most of the novel does not feature fonts and the novel also ranges over other topics as well as localizable sentences, yet maybe some readers might enjoy the novel and find interest in the topics that are mentioned.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/locse_novel.htm
William Overington
Friday 17 February 2017
Edited on Friday 3 March 2017 to include the size of the PDF document as being 29.90 kilobytes.