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Re: What is the earliest instance of a type foundry paying royalties?
In Rudolph Ruzicka: Speaking Reminiscently [The Grolier Club, 1986], Ruzicka relates how Griffith arranged to have him paid a small monthly fee, more or less in perpetuity, ostensibly as “typographic…4 -
Re: Periodcentered
It is used for some math functions, James. Technically, the bullet operator for math (indicating multiplication) is a separate Unicode character (U+2219) from the centered period (U+00B7). So, theore…5 -
Re: Convert from vfb
Out of interest, how do other tools distinguish between class and exception kerning? John — This is distinct from “tools” per se, but the latest version of the UFO spec, UFO 3 , introduces a required…2 -
Re: Daggers — tall vs. superscript
The reference symbols, while indeed primarily historical and not as common any more, are not quite “obsolete.” The Chicago Manual of Style still addresses them — §13.50, §16.35, §16.63, & §16.65 …1 -
Re: Contextual Alternates button/option in Illustrator & InDesign
Is that really true? I’ve never encountered a case where changing to a font without {calt} deactivates the feature. In InDesign at least, typically when a feature is active and then the font is chang…1
