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- From: de19@umail.umd.edu (Dana S Emery)
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- Subject: Re: Alg. for Detection of Monspaced Fonts
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 22:21:33 GMT
- References: <scott.724029618@phylo> <6534.2b28a410@hayes.com> <de19-141292204941@mac06-pg2.umd.edu> <1992Dec17.162443.12862@waikato.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Dec17.162443.12862@waikato.ac.nz>, ldo@waikato.ac.nz
- (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) wrote:
- >
- > Just a thought: all the writing systems with large character sets that I can
- > think of (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) are actually monospaced, aren't they?
- >
-
- I have been told that that is true for Japanese, but even so, I think that
- there are 1/2 width characters in use (for romaji, and possibly some
- graphics glyphs too).
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- Apparantly children (and adult gaiji) are taught to write using gridded
- paper, (which I have seen), cant get more monospaced than that.
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- Strangly enough, the other 2 candidates for large character sets (Mayan,
- Egyptian hieroglyphs) also seem likely candidates for mono-spacing.
-
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- Dana S Emery <de19@umail.umd.edu>
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