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Re: New Arabic font system
Look, I understand the idea that any bug you're sufficiently snide about becomes a feature :smile: but I still don't agree. Giving PUA codepoints left-to-right directionality is assigning t…2 -
Re: New Arabic font system
Well, I want to keep thinking about these issues because for one thing, you need to get them resolved if you want this to be a font that other people can use, and for another, it's an interesti…1 -
Re: Precomposed fractions — waste of time and space?
Yes and no. I think this is the nub of the issue. Let's define a rendering as the combination of a stream of characters (the text) plus a font. The font may have features which change how those…4 -
Re: Precomposed fractions — waste of time and space?
And yet a font turning f i into fi (and here I have copied-and-pasted in U+FB01 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI) is just fine? It's the same thing - and in neither case are codepoint substitutions invol…3 -
Re: Quotes about typography, not by white guys...
There's a lot of good stuff in Agyei Archer's talk.4
