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Re: Punctuation Feedback
There are just a few things not working for me still: - a and e thin parts are out of place - tail of the Q, even the thickest part isn’t thick enough, and the thin bit is bizarre and out of place in…1 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Froyo Tam would be a great person to ask about this. She’s been researching early eighties digital fonts, collecting hardware and software, creating her own fonts, and distributing her fonts on flopp…3 -
Re: Inferior characters
I know that reasoning of Unicode, of course. But knowing about it still doesn’t solve the obvious conundrum.1 -
Re: Inferior characters
Thank you John, I see your point and I was aware of the fact that math composing is different. However, what if such letters appear also in a bit of running text (like in the 2nd image)? What if they…1 -
Re: Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?
Layout features generally don’t change the encoding of the underlying text, as far as I know. (There are some edge cases where the underlying text is lost)2 -
Re: Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?
Putting this code in 'liga' makes absolutely no sense, but I can see some benefits for including it in 'ccmp'. Then any hardcoded ligatures in the document would be decomposed an…2 -
Re: Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?
The Substitution only works if you have a fi glyph in the font. The best solution (IMHO) is to have a fi that looks like a f and an i and no liga feature. Then, in the rare occasion that someone type…4 -
Re: Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?
If your font lacks hard-coded fi and fl and you copy/paste a text including them, wouldn't they cause tofu or fallback? Outdated or not, it's still likely to come up every now and then acro…1 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
I've always included full character sets in my PDF specimens, even though I know the risks. I believe the whole point of these specimens is to show people what they will be getting when they lic…4 -
Re: Smallcaps Numerals?
Yes, there are other fonts with smallcap numerals. Typically they are implemented in the c2sc feature, rather than smcp.3
