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Re: Reasonableness of idea 'L apostrophe → Lcaron' ligature
If you want to be 100% safe, you can do an L_quoteright ligature that looks the same. This way, if the font goes to PDF without any Unicode values, the PDF viewer will be able to parse the glyph name…2 -
Re: Implementing some features in a way that swaps glyphs in both directions?
The set could also be named “Square-Round Cyrillic”. I tend to think of these two styles of Cyrillic like of blackletter vs. roman or katakana vs. hiragana. The so-called Bulgarian Cyrillic is not ne…2 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
David, OK, maybe I should have phrased it differently. Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 (1993) and Apple QuickDraw GX (1995) used Unicode. And the Apple engineers did design SFNT around 16-bit Unicode, which…3 -
Re: Font format app license
Maria, The distinction between web apps and mobile / desktop apps is blurry. * The so-called web font formats such as WOFF2 are these days also used in desktop and mobile apps. Developers use framewo…2 -
Re: rvrn and rlig used together for switching shapes
Fortunately, in recent years, the communications between font makers and text engineers has improved a lot, thanks to platforms like Microsoft’s Github and opensource development like that done by Go…1
