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Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
They’re really not. If you look at textual practices around the world, in all manner of different scripts, consistent interlinear spacing is the norm, and there are conventions for different kinds of…1 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
I wasn’t mocking. Those are serious questions. I am perfectly capable of imagining the sort of thing you are talking about, and that imagination is what led me to the questions. Asking application de…1 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
While I agree that Latin-first is an outdated mode of font development, I think what that really means is that it is long past time to ditch the whole idea of a single set of vertical metrics for all…3 -
Re: My text face wish list
I don’t think there’s any harm in double mapping your angle brackets to the Dingbat codepoints, but avoid naming them in any way that could be parsed back to those codepoints.3 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
100% willing to have that if some of those environments have the correct linespacing and clipping behaviour. That is a better outcome than all of the environments having incorrect linespacing and/or …1
