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Re: New Prosper issue: Winding Directions
It’s not just you. TrueType outlines are harder to edit and work with. So even if TrueType is the primary or sole output format, most type designers still use PostScript outlines well into editing, a…2 -
Re: FontLab vs Glyphs
The biggest problem for a Windows version of Glyphs is that it was not developed on a cross-platform code base, so it would be a port. This means a lot more development work, and a lot more ongoing m…6 -
Re: Font QA Survey for PhD.
A bunch of the questions are binary, when the answer is often or usually going to be “both”: Do you test your fonts before you export them from Font SW or after? Both, but this is not an option. (Ass…2 -
Re: (OpenType programming) Dynamic ligatures
This is probably most easily with contextual alternates, as long as the string wouldn’t get broken by justification. Otherwise you would need a separate ligature for every length of hyphen sequence.4 -
Re: Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols
Textually. (IMO) What then-Adobe IP lawyer Donna Kolnes drilled into me and the type team repeatedly back in the 90s and 00s was that the ® or ™ had to appear with the first or most prominent use of …5
