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Cargo Cult Coding?
I noticed that many Adobe Std fonts include localized code for Turkish. For example, we find the following 'liga' feature in Optima Std Roman (as interpreted by FL5): <div>feature lig…1 -
Re: Coding of Cyrillic transliteration of Arabic words
I would think coding such a font would simply involve making a standard cyrillic font with the appropriate combining marks, and either a mark-to-base feature or a ccmp feature which produces precombi…1 -
Re: Typedesign and science, or: look at what I made!
Art is very frequently informed by science and mathematics. The development of perspective in the Renaissance was informed by mathematics; the search for better pigments has been informed by chemistr…3 -
Re: Apostrophe kerning by contextual lookup table
OTMaster is another program I wouldn't recommend for learning how to encode features. — Its decompiled source maintains maximal faithfulness to the underlying structure of the font at the expens…1 -
Re: Apostrophe kerning by contextual lookup table
The steps needed to produce a 'calt' feature *depend* on the software, so it's not really possible to discuss without also talking about the software. I don't normally use FontFor…1
