Frank, it would probably be helpful if you could provide a font (can have a very limited glyph set) that demonstrates the behaviour of the axis and how it would interact with things like kerning. (View Post)
I would recommend not using a glyph that is interesting enough that a user potentially might actually want to put into a document unless the glyph is also mapped by a PUA code point. But then, the re… (View Post)
Or keep using statements like the following? "One good source for sTypoAscender in Latin based fonts is the Ascender value from an AFM file." (View Post)
Interesting: it could provide a way for connecting scripts to remain connected when set on a path without badly distorting the text. But it would probably also be very hard to implement, and it's not… (View Post)