Katy, the phonetic glyphs that were in the file 08arv.pdf of the typophile link you refer to above are all in the following pdf (the output of a lualatex file produced by a luatex script that I wrot… (View Post)
The recommendation the wiki refers to is superseded. The one that replaced it too. I could find no current recommendation. I looked at some current documentation for Leica and Hasselblad and they eit… (View Post)
Andreas If you look at the the etymology for font as used in typesetting in the link https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/font#English, you get Etymology 2 from middle French with the "to melt" m… (View Post)
Spring in French is "source" or "printemps". I see no relation with the word "fonte". As for other origins of "font" in English, I just don't know. But there w… (View Post)