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Re: The Mysteries of the Unicode Table
Ray: Hopefully Maxim will chime in with a fuller and more nuanced explanation, but in the meantime: Idiomatically, the double-bowl ф works best in types with a vertical axis and an expansion stroke m…3 -
Re: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
The term revival applied to the mid-19th Century use of Caslon really means a revival of use of Caslon, which had fallen out of fashion for some decades. The foundry provided electrotyped matrices to…2 -
Re: Should all-cap tonos suppression be supported in OpenType?
U+00B7 is frequently used as encoding of ano teleia, but the /periodcentered/ glyph is usually sitting too low for ano teleia, which should align with the top dot of ; and :. So it's helpful to …1 -
Re: Should all-cap tonos suppression be supported in OpenType?
I do this in all my Greek fonts. Note that it is also the convention for polytonic accents in modern use. Everything gets suppressed in all-caps settings except the dialytika (dieresis). Note that th…7 -
Re: The Mysteries of the Unicode Table
If a font contains U+034F, then yes, it should probably be zero-width, no-outline, and the same obviously true for U+200B. U+200C and U+200D are a little different. They can be no-outline glyphs, but…5
