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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-09-12 at 23:07 Bob Hallissy
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #009900 !important;
border-right: 2px solid #009900 !important; padding: 0px 15px 0px
15px; margin: 8px 2px;" cite="mid:52328F90.30001@yahoo.com"
type="cite">index 1 is given the name ".null" which is not a valid
Adobe postscript glyph name -- it should be "null" instead.</blockquote>
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After further study (looking at PostScript Language Reference) it
appears that the above statement is wrong. Not only is ".null" a
valid PostScript name identifier, the identifier "null" has special
meaning unrelated to glyph names. Thus the correct name for glyph
index 1 probably should be ".null".<br>
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If this is the case, the OFF spec section 7 "Recommendations for OFF
fonts" should be modified to say:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">NOTE The PostScript glyph name must be
no longer than 31 characters, include only uppercase or
lowercase English letters, European digits, the period or the
underscore, i.e. from the set [A-Za-z0-9_.] and should start
with a letter, except the special glyph name<font
color="#ff0000">s</font> ".notdef" <font color="#ff0000">and
".null"</font> which start<font color="#ff0000"><strike>s</strike></font>
with a period. </blockquote>
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This suggests that the names list supplied in Apple's TrueType
reference manual (referenced in previous email) are in fact
completely accurate. <br>
<br>
Bob<br>
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