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Re: Separate language codes for different Englishes
Tal’s original {frac} code was partly a result of a conversation he and I and Christian Schwartz had. Prior to this, the Adobe approach required selecting and applying the feature only to the compone…1 -
Re: Separate language codes for different Englishes
Sure. And yet, in my Apple Mail program, if I type '18 or rock 'n' roll, using simple keyboard straight quotes, I actually get ’18 and rock ’n’ roll. So, in some cases this has in fact already been s…3 -
Re: Separate language codes for different Englishes
No, “Smart Quotes” attempts to solve the character-level problems at the character level, not the glyph/font level. It just doesn’t do it well in all cases. What you need is a more complete (or compe…4 -
Re: Romanée – New Release?
Naturally, all of this reminds me of the dialogue in Dwiggins’s fanciful account of the creation of Electra — his imaginary conversation with Kobodaishi, “Patron Saint of the lettering art”: (Having …3 -
Re: Numeral values of weights
You will experience problems having multiple weights with the same OS2weight value — e.g., both UltraLight and ExtraLight at 200, and both Light and Book at 300. You may also experience problems havi…3
