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Re: Units per em
Linotype matrices were specified to .001" increments (with machining tolerances of half that) — which is much finer than a quarter of a point, and effectively no unitization at all. Unlike the M…6 -
Re: Units per em
I think most (if not all) of Font Bureau’s RE fonts are on 512 upem, using similar reasoning. I believe that this approach grew out of David Berlow’s experience creating the Prelude fonts for Palm. H…6 -
Re: Naming font modifications
When working with clients on this sort of modification or customization, I always recommend a custom or modified name. And along with that, I offer to provide them with a script that will automate ch…5 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
InDesign also has its own predefined symbols for displaying invisible characters when Show Hidden Characters is activated, independent of what might be encoded in the font. FWIW, TextWrangler does ap…2 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Nina — As I said, I only double-encode U+00AD in case there is a validation tool that needs the codepoint in order to permit indication of certain codepage coverages. I suspect, as John does, that it…2
