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Re: Could this be a new approach to Arabic type design?
Basically, you plan the project carefully, consider all the kinds of variants that you are going to need and the contextual rules for when to use them. The cursive connection lookups are actually pre…1 -
Re: Mapping a Unicode range to another
No. OpenType works in glyph space. Text is encoded in character space. There are two interfaces between character space and glyph space: the font cmap table, which maps characters to their default gl…2 -
Re: Mapping a Unicode range to another
To confirm I understand, you are mapping Syriac glyphs to Hebrew Unicode codepoints in the font cmap table? I can guess why you might be doing this, but it isn't really a good idea. The first st…3 -
Re: Could this be a new approach to Arabic type design?
From what tool is that screenshot? It's possibly coming up with that number by multiplying all the first glyph attachments by all the second glyph attachments. But in fact the set of anchors I n…2 -
Re: Could this be a new approach to Arabic type design?
In Aldhabi, and most other cascading styles, cursive attachment connections are going to be necessary for basically all joining glyphs, because all involve arbitrary movements in the y-direction (ver…1
