[XeTeX] Microtypography?

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Thu May 11 07:27:55 CEST 2006


Le 11 mai 06 à 00:29, Jonathan Kew a écrit :

> On 10 May 2006, at 10:09 pm, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> In case that can be expressed in not too technical terms: what's the
>> difference between character and glyph? Character a logical unit (a
>> Unicode code point, maybe) and a glyph a physical unit (ie a set of
>> pen strokes)? It's not that important probably, but I'm just
>> interested in understanding what you mean there.
>
> Yes, a 'character' is a logical unit in the encoded representation of
> textual data; in this context, a Unicode code value such as <U+0061
> LATIN SMALL LETTER A> or <U+0628 ARABIC LETTER BEH>.
>
> [Lots of useful info]

Thanks! Illuminating, as always!

Bruno


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