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Re: Dreaming of a new feature syntax
Well, I had considered writing the features themselves in a Python-like minilanguage (where lookups are functions) but I think it would actually prove more frustrating than useful - people will want …1 -
Dreaming of a new feature syntax
I have recently been looking both at some complex fonts and at the possibility of programmatically manipulating features at a high level, and it has left me feeling like there could be some ways that…5 -
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 them a prop…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 interesting te…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 char…4
