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Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Right, but the point of control characters is that they don't need to be displayed under normal circumstances, and hence don't require glyphs to be present in the font. The soft-hyphen in a…3 -
Re: 656565656
What's going on is that overshoot is intended to provide a general optical adjustment between flat and rounded forms within a narrow band of space. So typically there isn't a lot of variati…5 -
Re: 656565656
It depends what part of the bottom of the letters I am focused on. If I focus on the relationship of the left side of the 5 to the right side of the 6, then the five looks very slightly lower. If I f…4 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Because of lack of standard advice regarding the length of U+2015, I've tended to literally interpret the name HORIZONTAL BAR, and make it as wide as my /bar glyph is tall. Obviously, this needs…1 -
Re: Can apostrophes swing both ways?
It should be an option, but in practice it isn't a robust mechanism. One of the things that's lacking in OpenType Layout is an unambiguous implementation specification — heck, any implement…3
