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Re: Why ascender can't use interline gap, but diacritics can?
While it doesn't directly answer the question, a way I think it's useful to think about the vertical font metrics is: * The size of outlines in relation to the em height will affect how the size of a…1 -
Re: Why ascender can't use interline gap, but diacritics can?
Much depends on where in the development cycle of a family of fonts one discovers that maybe one needs a little more space within the body height for the extenders of a particular weight and style. I…2 -
Re: Why ascender can't use interline gap, but diacritics can?
It wasn't intended to. It was a reference to what the original poster had stated. I was in no way disputing that John Hudson was correct in saying that ascenders are just as free to go outside the bo…1 -
Re: Read PFM files
You could convert the PFM to the human-readable AFM format. A tool for this is still available on CTAN.1 -
Re: Why ascender can't use interline gap, but diacritics can?
Relevant to the discussion, as I similarly wondered about vertical metrics in regards to non-swashed Latin characters without diacritics: it has been very helpful in grasping this conceptually by exa…2 -
Workshop on Oct 22: Coding for Glyphs with ChatGPT & Co
Dear all, Rainer is offering an online workshop as part of our Fonts and AI conference next week. It’s really attractively priced (£45/£25 per person) so I do recommend to grab a spot if you can! If …1 -
Re: Why ascender can't use interline gap, but diacritics can?
I disagree on kind of all counts. It is NOT a convention “ that ascenders must stay within the bounding box, while diacritics are more free” That statement doesn’t resemble at all what John Hudson w…5 -
Re: FontEnigma
As mentioned, the XOR‑encrypted fonts (for example ‘typeface.woff2.xor’) are decrypted on the fly in the browser. The resulting ‘blob:’ URLs are ephemeral: they disappear or are replaced when the pag…1 -
Re: Why ascender can't use interline gap, but diacritics can?
I can see one reason why, despite the way TrueType and OpenType actually work, as John Hudson had explained, that the convention that ascenders must stay within the bounding box, while diacritics are…1 -
Re: Why ascender can't use interline gap, but diacritics can?
You can definitely do this. The relationship of outlines to the body (em) height is arbitrary but conventional. So if you have an existing design with a particular relationship to the body height, an…3
