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Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Khaled, I'd not seen that paper before. It seems mostly to deal with perception of vowels in vocalised text. In the conclusion there is a reference to an earlier study, which I think is the one …2 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
It would likely also result in a different word or a pattern that suggests a different word. The lack of vowels in most written Arabic and Persian makes letter jumbling much more confusing than in En…2 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
On the subject of supplemental fonts containing OTL discretionary variants as default forms — something that I've resisted making, on the grounds that I shouldn't have to bend over backward…7 -
Re: Naming font modifications
It is precisely to avoid having existing documents in the standard font infected by a custom version — or vice versa — that we customise the name when we customise the font. There are too many variab…13 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Right, but the point of control characters is that they don't need to be displayed under normal circumstances, and hence don't require glyphs to be present in the font. The soft-hyphen in a…3
