witold@enme.UCalgary.CA (Witold Owoc) (01/23/90)
It started a long time ago.... I tried to print using PostScript the word "r \eacute s u m \eacute". Now: Using the procedures from chapter 5.7 of Adobe's Red Book I am trying to construct the fonts: one conforming to Latin-1 and the second to Latin-2 standard. I have heard that the first one covers all Western European alphabets, and the second one complements it with the regard to all other European languages using Latin alphabet. The problem is that I do not know the encoding used in those standards. If Latin-1 is the same as ISO character set I have the table given in Sun386i Developer's Guide (page 154 Revision B, June 1988) with proper? encoding. But for readability I would by glad to know the ISO names of all characters anyway. For Latin-2 I know the positions (although not names) of most characters specific to Polish language. That is everything I know. Now the questions to netters: 1) Are Latin-1, Latin-2 the correct names? Should they be replaced by ISO-number? 2) Can someone send me the tables for Latin-1 and Latin-2 ? Or where I can find one. I have no FTP access, so automatic mailer is preferable. But a pointer to a widely available publication is goog enough. 3) Some characters existing in ISO (on Sun386i) obviously exist only in PostScript Symbol set or nowhere at all. Does anybody gives away bitmaps (or PostScript procedures) which could be incorporated into the PostScript prologue to make the design complete ? I prefer responses by mail and if anything interesting (or complete) comes out I will gladly sumarize to the net. I do read both newsgroups, but only articles designated "na" or "world" as I am in Canada not in the USA. Thank you to all those who will respond. witold@enme.UCalgary.CA | Witold Owoc ...!calgary!enme1!witold |Department of Mechanical Engineering witold%enme@UNCANET.BITNET| The University of Calgary, Canada