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Re: How big is the type design industry?
Nick, “revenue of a sector” is of course a very coarse, misleading estimate. My understanding of how revenue for a sector, or “industry”, is estimated is that it’s the total of the final prices that …1 -
Re: LibreOffice 5.3.0 adds OpenType Layout feature support
Khaled, that won't help because in OpenType, features have their separate implementations per script and languagesystem. In OT, "liga" for "latn/DFLT" may be implemented via Looku…1 -
Re: Public domain pros and cons
Dave, you are very deeply mistaken. OFL is just a software license, and a is a legal instrument (a form of a contract) between two parties: a licensor (the copyright holder) and the licensee. In a s…6 -
Re: Small caps as a variable font axis in Glyphs?
I’ll point out that today, OpenType Font Variations work on the notion that each dynamically created instance is a separate “font” in terms of the text layout process. When text layout is performed, …2 -
Re: LibreOffice 5.3.0 adds OpenType Layout feature support
This is very unobvious for software developers who use existing text layout libraries to solve. Their code needs to itemize the text into runs which have the same font, size, script, language system …5
