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Re: [OTSpec] Use of term "Character"
Sure: "Function: To minimize the number of glyph alternates, it is sometimes desirable to decompose the default glyph for a character into two or more glyphs. Additionally, it may be preferable …1 -
Re: Mapping a Unicode range to another
John and Khaled have been providing the right answers here. The 'ccmp' feature can map glyphs into other glyphs, and should be processed in all shaping engines (certainly will be on Windows); but the…2 -
Re: [OTVar] hidden axis flag
What I'm concerned about is that I know in the future there will be a desire for some differentiated treatment of variation axes in user interfaces. As soon as we create new APIs exposing variation a…2 -
Re: [OTVar] hidden axis flag
Re more detailed metadata, I think it's way to early to be guessing at what the best future UI affordances for axes may be. As John indicates, there is always some assumption to be made when no flags…1 -
Re: Oblique and Italic in same family
For certain reasons, and after some discussion, we (MS, Adobe, Apple, Google and others) ended up deciding to make slant and italic separate sub-family-variant axes in the extended-family model that …4
