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Re: What should be done to do this with OpenType features?
Yes, AI supports {salt}, but it may not recognize GSUB type 6 rules assigned to that feature tag. I don’t see a need for ignore statements, given [how I interpret] the description of what Shahab is t…3 -
Re: Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
That would be a reasonable question. But in Finnish, for instance, I do know that native readers prefer dieresis aligned with tittle (or so a Finnish magazine art director has told me). Whether it is…2 -
Re: Fontlab VI messing with my components when generating UFOs
When a glyph is a component of a component, vfb2ufo tends to remap it to the original component when converting. For example, if you have a periodcentered.uc which is a shifted component of periodcen…1 -
Re: Habsburg Spain type design?
In the 16th century the Spanish church patronized the French printer, Christoph Plantin, who in turn procured type from the French typecutters. According to a brief type history by Mike Parker (now a…5 -
Re: Kashida-like function for other connecting scripts? (tracking/full-justification of scripts)
Nick’s refinement of my idea of built-in overlapping, by just extending one side of the headline, not both, so as to minimize need the “normal” alternates, is a nice improvement. John’s idea is inter…2
