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Re: Units per em
In the case of the Slabo fonts, I tailored the UPM to each target px size, so that I would have a number that was evenly divisible by the px number to give me a grid that fit to the UPM.5 -
Re: Fat-hatan on final Alef in Arabic
How are these sequences encoded? I presume it is desirable to have a consistent encoding, since putting the tanwin on different letters depending on how you want it to display means different spellin…1 -
Re: Units per em
Not just legacy systems. The optimisations in the rasterisers are current for DirectWrite as well as the older GDI environments. Basically, Microsoft's view is that since the optimisations impro…4 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
It's notable that not all implementations of the Arabic script are abjads: some are alphabets (e.g. the Kurdish writing system). I suspect that the efficiency of abjads is related to the particu…1 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Somewhat as an aside: There have been a lot of assertions in this thread about how we — collectively or as individuals — read. I think it is important to restate what should be obvious, given that co…4
