Re: [Groff] Some thoughts on glyphs

[Werner LEMBERG]

> It doesn't make sense to invent more and more glyph names.
> Following the AGL (Adobe Glyph List) algorithm is probably the best
> we can do; this is, having glyph names like `uni2317.ugly', where
> `uni2317' is Unicode character U+2317, and the suffix after the
> comma the glyph variant.

I've just read on another list that Adobe has accomodated that a bit
to cover non-BMP characters also.  The new scheme is to use `u' as a
prefix and `_' to denote ligatures.  Examples:

  u004A, u33637_224AE.swash

So I will adopt this.


     Werner