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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/3/14, 7:25 PM, Yair Rand wrote:<br>
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<div>I don't understand why is a 2-color font is necessary...</div>
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There are issues of overlap that must be addressed. Each symbols
has positive space (line) and negative space (fill). The negative
space of the symbol on top will cover the positive space of the
symbol underneath.<br>
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The writing does not look right, unless these overlap issues are
handled. The symbol fills took a lot of time to complete, and they
add a lot of value.<br>
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<div>A few issues on using a font to supply the symbols on
Incubator:</div>
1. Having the colors inherited directly from the font color
would solve some issues on the Incubator, such as getting the
:visited colors to work, and getting past the heavy
MutationObservers monitoring style changes. <br>
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It would be great to use standard CSS without MutationObservers. A
properly created font would be able to handle many of these issues.<br>
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I have been investigating SVG Glyphs for OpenType Fonts and believe
it will be possible to create a font for the SignWriting symbols as
they will be defined in Unicode 8. I have started the project and I
have the raw material ready. See the font test page.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://signpuddle.net/iswa/swfont_test.html">http://signpuddle.net/iswa/swfont_test.html</a><br>
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2. If the symbols themselves are actual simple text nodes in
the document, wouldn't this interfere with copy-pasting signs?</div>
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The Unicode and the SVG Glyphs in the OpenType font would only be
used for display. We would need a similar technique to the SVG
Background idea so that we could still use the FSW for storage. The
technical details aside, we would still be using FSW for copy and
paste.<br>
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<div>3. Is there an existing way to convert FSW straight to the
Unicode symbols?</div>
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Yes. The Unicode characters are a little tricky to deal with, but
the SignWriting Font Test Page include JavaScript fuctions that can
convert the FSW strings into the Unicode characters. The code on the
test page works great. It is purely functional with a lot of extra
content. It definitely needs cleaned up and restructured if we want
a general purpose library.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://signpuddle.net/iswa/swfont_test.html">http://signpuddle.net/iswa/swfont_test.html</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
-Steve<br>
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