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Re: Digital Greek Typography is Broken
Technically, we are long past the point where we could have normalized all text to Unicode NFD (fully decomposed), and still have been able to support older fonts at a buffered stage during the initi…2 -
Re: How to reorder color font as second letter behind the first one while overlapping?
I don’t think that shadow mechanism is quite the same case, Simon. What Tanveer wants is a series of overlapping letter shapes where the preceding letter overlaps the following letter. So imagine it …2 -
Re: Fun, detailed essay on old machine-routing font
Fry’s Baskerville. Leroy’s Gorton.5 -
Re: How to reorder color font as second letter behind the first one while overlapping?
Glyphs are painted in sequence. There isn’t really any way around this, and unlikely to be, as it is so basic to text rendering. It would require a major change in how text is handled in systems and …3 -
Re: Digital Greek Typography is Broken
The ano teleia normalization problem is a bad one. U+0387 GREEK ANO TELEIA has a canonical decomposition to U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT, which is entirely inappropriate because it conventionally sits too low t…1
