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Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
Not quite. The codepage bitfield is for registering what legacy 8-bit codepages the font supports, which is then used by some software — notably RichEdit clients on Windows —to make guesses about fon…4 -
Re: Monotype Introduces New Font Subscription Services
The trouble with the notion of a union in this situation is that we're not employees. We don't work for Monotype. Mostly we work for ourselves. Some of us are also actually employERS. The f…6 -
Re: Final/intial features
As announced earlier in this discussion, I have submitted a proposal to redefine the OpenType Layout features * Initial Forms {init} * Isolated Forms {isol} * Medial Forms {medi} * Terminal Forms {fi…1 -
Re: What are the best practices for the hist feature (long s)?
It's not for anything, which is why so few fonts implement it. Like quite a few of the OTL features that were registered in the early days, the {hist} feature was speculative. Adobe thought it w…2 -
Re: The Terms "Glyph List" versus "Character Set"
It's not entirely fixable, because PDFs can still be made by distilling from a print stream so this situation can still occur, even though other methods of PDF creation — which write character s…2
