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Re: Regis, a new serif font
The heel of b is a distinctly Fournier characteristic. It never really caught on with his contemporaries.The wide-ish g is found in Monotype’s Fournier and Barbou, but was not necessarily always the …3 -
Re: Python package locations
Can’t you just use a .pth file as a redirect?It’s been a while since I did this, so someone else will correct me if I’m wrong. Create a text file and name it “fontTools.pth”. The contents will be sim…1 -
Re: Does Mark to Mark, depends on Mark to Base?
The fallback behavior that John describes is actually a generic fallback in the World-Ready Composer, not applicable just to Hebrew.If any base character is followed by a combining mark, then one of …2 -
Re: Shouldn't italic be an OpenType feature?
Contrary to what Mark learned, the scheme advocated by The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Edition, 2003, anyway; not sure if they changed in the 17th) is that “all punctuation marks should appear in t…5 -
Re: Shouldn't italic be an OpenType feature?
Italic in the same font as Roman is a conceptual component of the variable font format.David Jonathan Ross recently explored this in an interesting way: https://djr.com/notes/roslindale-variable-ital…1
