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Re: Monospace f-ligatures
Nick — That wouldn’t apply in this case, since presumably the only way that one of the precomposed ligatures that we’re talking about (the legacy fi and fl chars) would be in the text stream is because…2 -
Re: Tabular Figures Width Consistency
If you’re developing a workhorse face that can be reasonably expected to be used for the setting of tabular matter — such as price lists, stats, or annual reports — then I recommend making the tabula…6 -
Re: “Flipped”, “droopy” “sign-painter” quotes
Ray — To add to Jackson’s examples, if you want some rules to cover all languages in a script, then you only need to assign the lookup to language dflt, you don’t need to explicitly list all language…4 -
Re: number of kerning pairs vs. performance
To add further anecdotal evidence to this point — Not that long ago I had to troubleshoot some fonts that were not compiling due to dreaded “kern overflow” errors, even with a subtabling routine appl…4 -
Re: Do OpenType GSUB lookups need to be under the 'correct' feature?
If you place a cursor or select a character within existing text and insert a glyph from the Glyph palette, then the deactivation of calt/liga will only be applied to the inserted character, not surr…2
