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Re: A little curiosity about pnum and tnum
I sometimes vary the width of a couple of other numerals, notably the 4, which can end up getting a bit pinched in tabular. Of course, the 4 is also one of the numerals that requires significant kern…2 -
Re: A little curiosity about pnum and tnum
It will depend on the design of the numeral shapes and on the overall spacing. That said, since the proportional numeral 1 generally needs to be more tightly spaced to all other numerals than the tab…1 -
Re: Overlap in variable fonts
The winding rules specified to be used with OT variable fonts should not be a problem in this respect. This is one of the key reasons for the CFF2 table spec, because Adobe's CFF format couldn't hand…2 -
Re: The Market for Expensive Cheese Graters
This seems outrageous only if one assumes that this is a role replacement for the old, pre-iMac desktop machine. It's not. When the iMac was introduced, Apple split their desktop market, recognising …6 -
Re: .sc and .a glyph types
Adobe insist on a one-to-one mapping from characters to glyph variants that can be back-traced by parsing the glyph name. This means that they need to duplicate smallcap glyphs to distinguish those m…6
