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Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
Although f-stop can be correctly indicated with just an italic f, the fact of the matter is that very frequently in the digital age the florin/hooked-f ƒ is now used. Pretty much ever since the Mac k…5 -
Re: Units per em
I think most (if not all) of Font Bureau’s RE fonts are on 512 upem, using similar reasoning. I believe that this approach grew out of David Berlow’s experience creating the Prelude fonts for Palm. H…6 -
Re: Naming font modifications
When working with clients on this sort of modification or customization, I always recommend a custom or modified name. And along with that, I offer to provide them with a script that will automate ch…5 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Further to what @"Khaled Hosny" said about U+00AD being a control character, in the Unicode Standard, you will find this description in the chapter on punctuation: [Unicode Standard, versio…2 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
My preferred approach to U+00AD softhyphen is the same as U+00A0 nbspace — which is to say, I prefer to double-encode them with their default references hyphen and space. These two are unique charact…7
