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Re: Reason for this kind of double quotation marks
If there were a separate language code for North American English, then we could make the <quoteleft> glyph (2018) look like an apostrophe, especially for display styles. That would make sense,…1 -
Re: favourite sources for metal type research
American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, by Matt McGrew. Very comprehensive.7 -
Re: Scrunch!
I worked at a variety of ad agencies in Canada in the 1980s, two of which were business-to-business (trade), into which category this ad belongs. At one, we could afford to send out for headlines, bu…2 -
Re: A little curiosity about pnum and tnum
In practice, I generally duplicate my default figure glyphs for their <pnum> alternates. Or, if the defaults are proportional, for their <tnum> alternates. However, I often make the <t…3 -
Re: .sc and .a glyph types
What André said about preserving the casing of the original text. That is the correct way to do small caps, although I usually don’t bother. It does seem like a lot of unnecessary work, as it really …2
