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Re: Replace ß by smallcap eszett or smallcap ss?
Seems to me the whole reason this is an issue is because the small-cap mechanism in the OpenType Layout framework was conceived to operate outside of any text-level casing mechanisms, and so the type…4 -
Re: MS Word — non-responding ligatures switch
That enumeration is not a canonical ordering; that is just a list of different numbered lookup types. If you crack a compiled font into FontLab, then generally it will list the {kern} feature first i…1 -
Re: Stylistic Set Consistency Between Styles
For reasons that John and Khaled have already expressed, when I used to work on features for Font Bureau fonts, I would handle Stylistic Sets within a family similarly. For example, Cyrus Highsmith i…5 -
Fonts.com Promo - Dwiggins Fact Check
This may be petty of me, but I feel compelled to publicly set the record straight regarding an error in the W.A. Dwiggins narrative relayed in a Fonts.com email promo that went out yesterday. (If you…12 -
Re: Dropped small-caps parens
The issue I’ve run into when using GPOS for things like this is that some extra-font rendering elements end up inheriting the re-positioning. The classic example is the underlining in InDesign. Grant…5
