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Re: Font management with Apple Librofont
Font handling in LibreOffice for the Mac is a horror show (I say this as a loyal user of LibreOffice). For a large family of fonts it commonly makes available only about half of the faces, and in pra…2 -
Re: Using B-splines to draw italics
I spent much of the morning playing with Inkscape because of this post, and I agree that B-splines are amazing, and not only for italics. I'm not sure they're better than spiros, but both aim to solv…2 -
Re: A sophisticated webfont solution for the humanities?
I think you're right that Google wouldn't be interested in funding a project that requires work at irregular intervals indefinitely, far into the future. I've also experienced what you're talking abo…1 -
Re: Æthelflæd
The pedant medievalist in me has got to pipe up to say: (1) @"André G. Isaak" is right: textura is centuries in the future at the time of Æthelflæd: it would be rather like using Avenir to …3 -
Re: Æthelflæd
I wouldn't be surprised if the historians argue about it. The conventional wisdom (=good enough for literary scholars) is that the last king of Mercia died during the reign of Alfred, and afterwards…1
