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Re: Where do I find which glyphs are required for a given language?
Even if a langsys tag is included in the font with appropriate glyph substitution or other specific behaviour, the whole mechanism relies on too many underspecified things happening in software, such…1 -
Re: Where do I find which glyphs are required for a given language?
Yes, it is how Eliyezer explained it to me. I think there was always an ambiguity in the langsys concept, in that langsys can—and perhaps in most cases does—correspond to writing convention norms or …1 -
Re: Where do I find which glyphs are required for a given language?
I can reliably attest that the authors of the OpenType Layout script and language system tags just invented a name. Because I was the person who invented many of the early ones. At the time (late 199…2 -
Re: Can 'calts' and positional forms have stylistic sets?
OpenType Layout mostly proceeds by lookup order. So you need to be aware of the glyph string content at each stage, taking the output from the previously applied lookups as input for subsequent looku…2 -
Re: Grunge Typography
My recollection of the 1990s is that the term grunge typography came along fairly late, to refer to a fairly small subset of work sometimes within and sometimes in opposition to the larger conceptual…2
