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Re: Crowbar: A text shaping debugger
What you're seeing is the steps that an OpenType shaping/layout engine goes through as it applies feature rules from a font to an input string and turns it into a set of glyphs to be laid out v…2 -
Crowbar: A text shaping debugger
For anyone who hasn't seen it on Twitter already, I have created a tool called Crowbar which will help you to debug shaping/layout issues. It's web based, but it runs on your own browser so…2 -
Re: Why are GSUB type 5 format 1 and type 6 format 1 lookups so rare?
Most people who aren’t VOLT, FontDame or HighLogic users go through the AFDKO font syntax and tools to get layout information into their fonts. This means that they’re at the mercy of what AFDKO synt…3 -
Re: "Class 0" in GSUB/GPOS
Answering my own question after a bit of experimentation, it does appear to mean “every other glyph in the font”. Which is a) cool and potentially very useful, b) extremely unwieldy to express in fea…1 -
Re: Unexplained phrase in GPOS explanation
Yes, that’s an invalid font and you should probably raise an issue with Unicode. Additionally, I’d argue that there is a bug in fontTools if you can generate that font in the first place. If you can …1
