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Re: Combining marks advance width
Yes, I recall now. So my warning appears to be: if you make i and j from precomposed glyphs, use U+0307, with an advance width of zero, not U+02D9? Although I haven’t tried that—rather, I’ve abandone…1 -
Re: Combining marks advance width
I advise against making /i by combining dotlessi with dotaccent. Same thing for /j. I did that in a typeface, and discovered that there are some layout applications which don’t render it correctly (e…2 -
Re: hello typedrawers,
Don’t worry about a precise command of English, many of us native speakers struggle with that, too! But please do post images if possible, it adds life to discussions.4 -
Re: En dash = width of n?
I start out making my dashes the “proper” width – but it doesn’t always look good, so I often depart from convention. There’s nothing wrong with that—it exploits the opportunity for enhanced function…1 -
Re: Copying punches?
Right. A plaster “matrix” made from a tooled type “punch” would have had limited usability. Thanks for your erudition, everybody! One other thing that occurs to me: there were very few characters in …1
