André G. Isaak

Oops -- a usenet habit.

André

I agree with Adam, here, but, of courſe, þeir are times ƿhan hiſtorie is ƿhat is beyinge souȝte.

Well, I'm assuming by then that FontLab Studio VI will be in non-beta form (right now I'm sticking with FL5 largely because I'm more comfortable with its interface, but also because doing real work in a beta makes me a tad nervous).

(just in case, though, I have my trusty snow-leopard VM for running 32-bit software and PPC software, and SheepShaver for running even older software, and Mini vMac for running *truly* ancient mac software when waxing nostalgic).

André
[Official Luddite]

John Hudson is referring to the use of control codes to override directionality. These would have to be manually inserted into the text. See Chapter 2 of the Unicode Standard (available from www.unicode.org).

The other thing to consider is whether braille printers even use a font at all. A font which prints braille on paper using a LaserPrinter would be of little use to the blind, and I can't see postscript or truetype outlines being of much use to a dedicated braille printer.