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August 03, 2006
Bush Guard memos used Times Roman, not Times New Roman
Note that this is not part of my day job, and any views expressed on this topic are my own and do not reflect any position of Adobe's on these issues.
This is a long one, but the punchline is that Dr. David Hailey has published some new analysis of 2004's infamous purported Bush National Guard memos, with access to much better copies of them than have previously been available to anyone outside CBS. Although I disagree with his conclusions, having better samples has allowed me to do some analysis of my own, and I do believe we've got even more certainty about the typeface: it's Times Roman (from Linotype, distributed heavily by Adobe and Apple) rather than Times New Roman (from Monotype, distributed heavily by Microsoft).
[Update, later same day: So, I'm reading through the Wikipedia entry on authenticity issues (cited below), and I run into this bit. "Desktop magazine in Australia analysed the documents in its November 2004 issue and concluded that the typeface was a post-1985 version of Times Roman, rather than Times New Roman...." Well, so much for my write-up being a scoop! All I can say is that I don't recall that bit being there the last time I read the entire Wikipedia article... sigh.]
August 01, 2006
Extending Cyrillic (and later Latin) character sets
One project I've been working on is to define some extended character sets: that is, more characters that we're going to have as standard in many of our future new fonts, and in some cases in future revisions to existing fonts.
First I tackled Cyrillic. What I'm presenting here is what you might consider a "late draft" - it's what we're going to go with unless we find errors or key omissions, and what Robert and I have been putting into the next typefaces we're working on. Feedback welcome!
Some time later this year I'm likely to get into the same process for Latin-based languages. So, if you have any thoughts on characters that we aren't yet putting in our newest Pro fonts, but you think would be useful additions, please comment. I'll accumulate any and all suggestions, and look into them more carefully when time permits.
Note: In your comments, I'd appreciate your referring to characters both by Unicode and some kind of descriptive name, or with links to detailed info. For example, you might say "you should include the new Ukrainian hryvnia currency symbol, U+20B4, in all your fonts which support Cyrillic," or "you should make sure your new or extended Latin fonts support the six accented letters needed by Esperanto: u with breve, and c g h j and s with circumflex. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto."
[NOTE: Special thanks to Emil Yakupov of Paratype for his careful analysis and review of the original version of this post. On Aug 3, 2006, I did several minor updates as noted below in the text. None of these affected our actual character set definition, however.]