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Re: notdef in Oculi text font makes it a bad choice
Not sure why that would be. The fallback stack is quite long, and the first couple after Oculi are system-level fonts. And yet, you are seeing the .notdef from Oculi instead of a fallback or Last-Res…1 -
Re: African languages word lists
Denis — Good lead, thanks. The Corpuscrawler points also to the Unilex project which looks like it has some particularly promising word list resources.I agree that there is difficulty in compiling re…1 -
African languages word lists
Does anyone have a lead on word collections for some of the more widely spoken African languages? — e.g. Hausa, Ewe, Kabiyè, Fulfulde/Pulaar/Pular, Serer, et al.Word frequency lists would be ideal. D…1 -
Re: What could be an effective strategy for handling frac/tions in OpenType fonts?
Around the same time John was developing Nutso, I also worked out a fairly reliable approach using only GSUB. Because GPOS handling in apps still seemed a little iffy back then.My approach could also…2 -
Re: What could be an effective strategy for handling frac/tions in OpenType fonts?
I don’t agree unconditionally with John & Thomas. If the text environment is variable or fluid, then yes, applying fractions globally can be fraught. But if you’re typesetting a cookbook, then ha…4
