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Re: Shouldn't italic be an OpenType feature?
@"Denis Moyogo Jacquerye" wrote to which @@"Thomas Phinney" responded Specifically, to how CJK fonts were made by Adobe, Morisawa, and some others in the absence of a PS/CFF equiv…1 -
Re: Shouldn't italic be an OpenType feature?
Weeeeell... The existence of italic as a registered OT variation axis is a byproduct of the STAT table design. The STAT table is intended to replace the name table as the mechanism by which the relat…2 -
Re: Sort of ‘animation’ table in OTVar
It's unnecessary for this to be in the font itself, since it is so easy to create an animation of any variable font within CSS.1 -
Re: Negative advance
As I understand the original post, it's referring to an outcome of additive extrapolation of reducing width deltas between axes. Since extrapolated widths are not stored in the hmtx table, they&…1 -
Re: bar and broken bar
As Khaled says, the | bar character is used as a delimiter in math; it is also used in various other branches of academic publishing e.g. to mark separation of lines in transcription. For math use, t…3
