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Re: How Glyph Level PS Hints actually work?
This is why we say that TrueType has instructions, but PostScript just has hints. In TT you tell the renderer what to do. In PS, you make polite suggestions.4 -
Re: Distributors which specialize in variable fonts
That Monotype quote perfectly expresses the difference between leading and following.6 -
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: Open Font Format Layout Tag Registry
I was thinking the other day how useful it would be for the OT tag registry to be an actual machine-readable database - perhaps something similar to the IANA language tag registry - not just an HTML …3
