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Re: Glyph Sidebearings and Text Alignment
Another way to say the same thing is that we're back in a phase where developers want to make progress but are frustrated at Microsoft's iron grip on the format.1 -
Re: Interesting kerning behavior in macOS applications
You're comparing apples and oranges. FontGoggles is not a text layout engine, and does not perform run segmentation like a text layout engine would; it just passes the string wholesale to the shaping…2 -
Re: Do we have Conditional Ligature feature only in certain conditions???
Ok, we need to back up a little here with some background knowledge. There are two different concepts here: the first is OpenType lookup types, which are kind of like virtual machine instructions. Th…2 -
Re: Metafont – ?
I think there's more to say on this: METAFONT is both too simple and way too complicated. The first thing to note is that Donald Knuth is a genius, and like many geniuses, came up with brilliant ways…9 -
Re: Implementing some features in a way that swaps glyphs in both directions?
Rules which are part of the same lookup are executed "all at the same time". Please have a look at Lookup application in my font engineering book for how it works.1
