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Re: Are printed specimens just fun objects or do they really help sell type?
Yes! What the heck has happened to PDF specimens lately? Seems like hardly anyone makes them for new releases. I can understand not producing printed specimens except for special circumstances; the c…4 -
Re: Grocer's ₹
I would certainly expect Gujarati writers to eventually (if not already) drop the headline, since the ra in Gujarati has no headline anyway. And I wouldn’t be surprised if some handwritten forms come…1 -
Re: Hyphen-minus and mathematical operators
I think generally you have to accept the difference. Trying to anticipate uses like this via {calt} is only likely to get you into trouble. You might try to convince your client to use an endash inst…3 -
Re: OpenType fea example for tabular lining substitution?
That is the nature of InDesign. It is not sophisticated about distinguishing these enumerated options. For example, if I have a font with only onum (and no corresponding lnum), InDesign will present …3 -
Re: TTF Diet, by Karsten Lücke and Adam Twardoch, reduces Latin TTF fonts by ~10%
John — I don’t quite understand this. Without leaving the blank mapped glyphs as targets, how can you have the {ccmp}? Won’t the tests just yield .notdefs? Or are you asking Adam to run tests to see …1
