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Re: Precomposed fractions — waste of time and space?
As Tom notes, there are circumstances in which text content can be changed based on parsing of the glyph string, although this is less common than it used to be. I remember that, back in the early da…5 -
Re: Interesting Omega and Phi Inscription
The style of Omega used in this inscription is often referred to as an 'Imperial Omega', although I'm not sure why.6 -
Re: Stylistic Sets — have to be consecutive?
I have an admittedly idiosyncratic approach: I used stylistic sets counting upwards from 01 for actual stylistic variants, and I use sets counting downwards from 20 for situations where I've bee…3 -
Re: Visible BOM
See Helmut's reply and examples. Apps like MS Word and Libre Office have an editing mode that displays formatting characters. To support this, Microsoft recommended having visible glyphs for e.g…3 -
Re: Visible BOM
I think SIL are overthinking this. It isn't necessarily the case the software encountering a VS character will display a .notdef glyph if the font doesn't contain a glyph (visible or otherw…3
