I think this development is crazy. And no, until someone sells their entire library to OpenAI for training (how long do you think that’ll take, and who will it be?), we will still need professionals … (View Post)
Looking good! ɚ usually has the crossbar slanted to connect with the hook diacritic to the right, even in designs where e/ə has a straight crossbar. ŋ and ɧ usually have stronger tails, somewhat clos… (View Post)
I assembled my tone ligatures out of components: I needed nineteen (not a bad deal to make 140 glyphs), but I now think I could have gotten away with fewer. The work was very quick (once I got around… (View Post)
Over the last year the hardware has become much faster. Now I've read that we are also moving from traditional "floating point" to a new "bitnets" maths. All that will increase th… (View Post)
The latest OpenAI ChatGPT was announced yesterday and the announcement blog post is at https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o In the Exploration Of Capabilities section drop-down, there is a "tex… (View Post)
I'll echo the opinion that the symbol for no audible release (U+031A) should have been a spacing modifier, not a combining diacritic. I'm pretty sure I've seen the same complaint from phoneticians. E… (View Post)
The pysilfont package has a script (https://github.com/silnrsi/pysilfont/blob/master/examples/psftoneletters.py) to draw tone letters and some ligatures. Alternatively, one can also have component gl… (View Post)
The print options in recent versions of FontLab are indeed woeful, but that’s a separate issue from getting every glyph out of a font tool and into a program like InDesign. The Glyphs script that Mic… (View Post)
I have not read him, but I am informed that one of the main defenders of Coster was Hessels: https://www.amazon.com/Haarlem-Birth-Place-Printing-Classic-Reprint/dp/1331964687 And there is this other … (View Post)