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Re: The future of combining marks.
My general approach is to provide precomposed glyphs if the marks overlap with the base outline in any way. In some cases, this results in using composites or merging outlines in a way that does not …1 -
First typeface with a name?
Does anyone know what was the first typeface to be named, to be identified as something other than e.g. Aldus' second italic, or Caslon's English Body Pica Roman No.1? It makes sense that t…4 -
Re: Double mapping is bad
It isn't. There are plenty of good candidates for double-mapped encodings. Adobe tends to avoid them because they want to have an unambiguous mapping from GID to Unicode for the sake of Acrobat,…3 -
Re: Export old-style non-OpenType "kern" table
The last time we included both kern table and GPOS kerning in a TT font was in 2003. Actually, we didn't include the kern table: Microsoft added (subset) kern tables to the CT Collection fonts f…1 -
Re: Ornaments and Unicode
Care should be taken not to confuse key combinations with character or glyph combinations. Keystrokes, like other input systems, are entirely arbitrary mechanisms to input character codes, either ind…3
