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Re: Inspiration for Times New Roman
I agree. I think this is one of those situations where a descriptive epithet transformed into an official moniker. Original, casual references to The Times’s new roman, became Times New Roman.Somewha…3 -
Re: Variable Fonts and Graphic Design
As I recall, the “grading” concept was developed at Font Bureau primarily by Tobias Frere-Jones, along with Mike Parker, in the context of a project sponsored by the Poynter Institute for Newspaper S…3 -
Re: Latin small letter n with macron
FWIW, there is precedent for -mañjari being used by the Sanskrit poet Kṣemendra for various verse collections of stories abridged from longer epics — e.g. Ramāyaṇamañjari, Bhāratamañjari. Perhaps tha…1 -
Re: Fontlab 5 - text in space glyph
If you go to File > Font Info… and then go to the Encoding and Unicode section, you’ll see where that gets set.1 -
Re: Converting Proportional to Fixed-Width
Would it help simplify things to first run a routine that would un-nest any nested composites? If a glyph contains a component reference to a glyph that is in turn a composite, then recalculate the r…1
