I am just finishing up a massive font and was wondering if anyone can help me on understanding unicode.
I am trying to assign a PUA code to my alternates and ligatures. My goal is that someone can access the alternates on a windows machine by hitting the alt key and the decimal value assigned to the alternate. Is that even possible? The intentions are for people with outdated software to be able to access all of the alternates. Am I dreaming here, or is that something that is possible?
Thanks!!!!!
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Even with OT software, they are easier to work with than constantly back-and-forthing between various combinations of stylistic sets deeply buried in the GUI.
For instance, consider alternate /g and alternate /a : In order to assess which is preferable, a user has to select one, then the other, then deselect one.
That’s 12 mouse movements in total (InDesign menus).
However, if they are configured as four fonts, it’s only three mouse movements.
Plus it’s clear just by looking in the font field, exactly which version is selected.
However, and this relates to a recent post of Stuart’s, what you really need to know is how your customers work—or if indeed any of those who licence such alternate-heavy fonts actually use Word.