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Re: ccmp and decomposition
I did this contextually in the ccmp feature for the Cambria and Brill fonts, so diacritic glyphs decompose when followed by a combining mark. This is to avoid having to provide mark-to-diacritic GPOS…5 -
Re: The Market for Expensive Cheese Graters
Personally, I know one person who may purchase one of these machines. He is dealing with photographic resolutions that boggle my mind, digitally archiving a fine art collection in a way that makes it…2 -
Re: The Market for Expensive Cheese Graters
This seems outrageous only if one assumes that this is a role replacement for the old, pre-iMac desktop machine. It's not. When the iMac was introduced, Apple split their desktop market, recogni…6 -
Re: .sc and .a glyph types
Adobe insist on a one-to-one mapping from characters to glyph variants that can be back-traced by parsing the glyph name. This means that they need to duplicate smallcap glyphs to distinguish those m…6 -
Re: Parametric vs Interpolated fonts
Decovar — like Amstelvar — is a proof of concept, showing what it is possible to do in the design space using a parametric approach. It exposes, as you have noted, limitations in the current OT varia…1
