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Re: Robofab margins and component behaviour in Fontlab
The position of a component in a composited glyph is relative to the position of the original reference glyph, which is in turn relative to the origin (0, 0). If you shift the position of an accent g…1 -
Re: Open source implementations for stacked fractions in OTL
As always, John, it is hard to argue with your logic. You know that I respect your rigorous standards-oriented stance. And the italic analogy is compelling. In an ideal text production environment, I…1 -
Re: makeotf error: coverage section too large
FWIW, in the TTX xml representation of a Contextual LookupType, the tables for the various positions are referred to as BacktrackCoverage, InputCoverage, and LookAheadCoverage. I don’t know if AFDKO …1 -
Re: What is the earliest instance of a type foundry paying royalties?
In Rudolph Ruzicka: Speaking Reminiscently [The Grolier Club, 1986], Ruzicka relates how Griffith arranged to have him paid a small monthly fee, more or less in perpetuity, ostensibly as “typographic…4 -
Re: Periodcentered
It is used for some math functions, James. Technically, the bullet operator for math (indicating multiplication) is a separate Unicode character (U+2219) from the centered period (U+00B7). So, theore…5
