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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 char…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 involved. …3 -
Re: Quotes about typography, not by white guys...
There's a lot of good stuff in Agyei Archer's talk.4 -
Re: Making JSTF better
Well, we need to back up a bit here because I've been talking about two different things. I'm approaching the OpenType justification problem from two directions and hoping they'll meet in the middle…2 -
Re: Making JSTF better
I wrote a new paragraph building algorithm which supports multiple methods of justification. I am ridiculously proud of it.2
