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Re: Why are composite glyphs not used whenever possible in exported TTF files?
In TrueType fonts, the decision whether to use composites for particular glyphs is often informed by decisions about hinting and, hence, may vary depending on the production and hinting tools used.2 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
You're talking about cognitive clustering. I'm talking about graphotactical fusion, i.e. the actual modification and joining together of letters into groups on the page according to their s…1 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
<calt> is discretionary in the sense that matters to Peter, in that it should have UI access in order to turn off the contextual alternates. This is how the feature was registered (what I class…3 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Let me back up a moment, since I'm the one who introduced the term 'perceptual bias' into the conversation, to clarify what I meant by it. I wrote: In other words, what I am calling pe…3 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Speaking of dogma. Hrant, I think you need to consider the possibility that the scribes who consciously developed particular ways of writing were intelligent people who understood some things about b…4
