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Re: Devanagari Fonts for Learning Reference
You might want to investigate Tiro Typeworks’ Indigo project: https://github.com/TiroTypeworks/IndigoThis provides not only the fonts but also the sources for a whole series of open-source Indic font…1 -
Re: notdef in Oculi text font makes it a bad choice
For the record, Denis’s post also included instances of uniAB55–AB59 and AB4E in the last paragraph. Which is another reason that the “hex box” solution is really useful in this forum, rather than ba…1 -
Re: What could be an effective strategy for handling frac/tions in OpenType fonts?
That would indeed be a more robust and agnostic approach. Ideally, I’d personally prefer to see explicitly encoded text. As Nick says, all of the cookbook fractions have Unicode codepoints. But all …1 -
Re: What could be an effective strategy for handling frac/tions in OpenType fonts?
I don’t agree unconditionally with John & Thomas. If the text environment is variable or fluid, then yes, applying fractions globally can be fraught. But if you’re typesetting a cookbook, then ha…4 -
Re: You would think that the Washington Post could do better than this
The cost of adding characters to the fonts would not be exorbitant. Especially not compared to the investment in one’s brand, which distinctive fonts contribute a great deal to. I doubt it is ultimat…8
