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Re: New Arabic font system
Making two separate fonts will resolve the need to map two different shapes to the same Arabic codepoint, but you will need to manually select bits of text to apply one or other font. You won't …2 -
Re: A little curiosity about COMBINIG GRAPHEME JOINER
A bit more background: This character ended up not being used for it's original intended purpose, so the name is a bit misleading. In fact, the most common use of this character now is to preven…3 -
Re: A string of marks
This can be done using OpenType layout features, with a combination of GSUB and GPOS, but it's difficult and not typical. In general, in situations where one has a string of text applied as a no…3 -
Re: A string of marks
The closest I've come to doing this in a real world situation using just OpenType Layout is sequences of two superscript numerals or letters used as melodic notation in the Samaveda.3 -
Re: Precomposed fractions — waste of time and space?
[I've been pushing for years for a total editorial overhaul of the OTL feature registry to bring the feature descriptions in line with actual implementations, but no one's come up with a bu…1
