Re: Mr Horns "recommendation"

[Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

Yannis Haralambous:

> And since we are talking recommendations, my recommendation in the near future
> also will be not to use T1 or OT1, but of course Omega, which doesn't care
> about silly encoding issues [don't be offended, I don't find anyone's work
> silly, but the fact that people spend hours/days/months finding the right
> place to put characters, choosing them with care so that their number
:              ^^^^^^^^^^
Not to mention math symbols, in which case it's years not months. (*)

> does not exceed the fatal limit of 256, finding arrangements for keeping
> related characterser and so on... if all that energy could be canalized in
> developping 16-bit products the world would be a better place] (*)

> (*) http://www.ens.fr/omega

(*) http://www.tug.org/twg/mfg/

Cheers, Ulrik.

P.S.  BTW, if you check the archives you'll find that you've promised
us something:  http://www.tug.org/twg/mfg/mail-html/1993-08/msg00165.html