[cgreek:00074] Re: progress report

[Pierre MacKay <mackay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My flex program is rather poor on the special characters provided
by the TLG project.  They are not much of a problem so long as there
is a font to reproduce them.  I would put things like the diple into
my prosody font (still very much a work in progress) and the
flex interpreter could easily send into the output a font call
as well as the character.  

I am more of a rhetor than a rhapsode, so my work has been
almost entirely concerned with getting prose into shape.  I
do have the early development of the prosody font, which is
intended to produce the kind of thing that appears at the
head of Bruno Snell's or Alexander Turyn's editions of Pindar,
etc.  I think I can reproduce anything that Paul Maas would
have written.  There are still some marks that West uses that
I have not yet coded.  

I have not even tried to think about on-line font changes to
deal with things like the diple during an interactive search
of the TLG.  I tend to run TLG->TeX coding (Ibycus)->TeX->xdvi or dvips
This is lazy, I know, but it does what I have most needed in the
past./

I really don't see any practical solution but multiple fonts.  Unicode
could be brought into service through the private rrange of codes,
but the fonts would still have to be provided, and it is probably
better to stick to multiple 255-element fonts than to depend on
the still rather rare software that allows for larger sets.  (I realize
that I am unaware of what direction CJK font development is going.  When
I last took an interest it was still assumed that many 255 character fonts
would be preferable to a single huge 65535-character font.)

Regards,

Pierre MacKay

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