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Re: What are the best practices for the hist feature (long s)?
It's not for anything, which is why so few fonts implement it. Like quite a few of the OTL features that were registered in the early days, the {hist} feature was speculative. Adobe thought it w…2 -
Re: The Terms "Glyph List" versus "Character Set"
It's not entirely fixable, because PDFs can still be made by distilling from a print stream so this situation can still occur, even though other methods of PDF creation — which write character s…2 -
Re: OTF fonts from Glyphs not working with Windows/Word
Are you running Windows on a PC, or as a virtual machine on a Mac? Either way, it sounds like this could be a corrupt font database, and the best thing to do is restart Windows in recovery console mo…2 -
Re: OpenType aalt feature
I've never bothered including the {aalt} feature in fonts, because it seems to me that software should be able to parse the other features and compile its own list of alternates. Basically, I th…1 -
Re: Typeface to accompany Canada 150 logo
Here is a link to a document on supporting typography for First Nations languages in Canada that Ross prepared when he was developing Huronia. Note that this is a draft document that has not been fin…4
