Re: [DejaVu-fonts] dejavu braille glyphs

[nocturnaldreamer <noc...@gm...>]

Am 10.11.2010 21:03, schrieb Ben Laenen:
> Vivien Guillet wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is the rationale for having square dots for Braille glyphs in
>> DejaVu ? Almost every other Braille font have rounded dots, which I
>> think is the right way to do.
>>
>> I can submit a patch with rounded dots I designed for the nat-braille
>> translator project -- but I am by no mean a font designer.
>
> All the dots in Sans are squares or rectangles, so it makes sense to have
> braille with square dots as well. It's only a matter of style.
>
> If you want round ones, you can use Serif.
>
> Greetings
> Ben

Well, most dots, but actually not all of them. Considering that Braille, 
when printed in ink, consists of a pattern of filled and unfilled 
circles rather than just dots or points, I guess it would make sense to 
change the glyphs. After all our bullets are round, and Braille dots, by 
virtue of their size and their usual shape, seem to have more in common 
with those than with punctuation or diacritic marks.

Regards,
Gee Fung Sit