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Re: Anchor positioning habits
I usually put anchors at the x-height/cap-height, but you're right, they could be anywhere that is convenient as long as you are aware of it. I don't position them differently for overshoot…3 -
Re: Sort multiple-mapping sequentially in FontLab
An easy way to make custom encodings is to rearrange glyphs in the Index view and then save as a custom encoding (Glyph > Glyph Names > Save Encoding). After you save it, you can open it and ch…1 -
Re: Maximum UPM for .otf fonts?
2048 is a round number in binary, like 1000 is in decimal. It presumably made things more efficient and faster for the 8 to 33mhz processors and 1 or 2MB of RAM that were typical at the time TrueType…2 -
Re: What do you think might be causing this problem?
Given that the character advance widths are doubled means this is probably not a tracking-related issue. Tracking adds the same amount between characters, not an amount proportional to the individual…2 -
Re: fonttools in Catalina
Never mind. It turns out the problem was trying to run the script from BBEdit. Pre-Catalina, I always used Textmate to run scripts. But the version of Textmate I was using wasn't 32-bit, so I fi…1
