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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 -
Re: Can you do reorder to the glyphs and apply ligature after that?
"This is perhaps the trickiest part of OpenType". https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/a85461b9b6367d5ce313c800f9efc6a1ad750616/src/hb-ot-layout-gsubgpos.hh#L991-L10131 -
Re: Type design hot takes
I wouldn't describe Inter as a San Francisco replacement.1
