Re: Pixel-based display functions

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Eli Zaretskii writes:

 > Do people actually do such things?  If so, in what circumstances?

Boldface and italic come immediately to mind. ;-)

Among math symbols people may prefer different versions of some of
them (cf TeX's \varphi, for example).  Large character sets like Han
(you may specify Japanese fonts because your audience is Japanese, but
if your text contains Chinese names for example, you may need to
borrow characters from a Chinese font).