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Re: Font Licensing Rabbit Hole
WOFF is a wrapper and very much like zip; WOFF2 is a reformatting.3 -
Re: Reverse chained contextual substitution?
Not Urdu per se, but nastaliq style Arabic as favoured for Urdu. Nastaliq is distinctive in that the form a letter takes is determined by the final letter in a connected group, i.e. you need to know …4 -
Re: ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours
I was instrumental in getting the old 'Code Morale' removed from the ATypI statutes in 2004. I worked closely with Cynthia Batty on this, and we went through the statutes very carefully and…7 -
Re: Don't font vertical metrics ever affect leading in InDesign?
It's not weird if you remember that InDesign is primarily a page layout program, so deals with typography in terms of type size and type leading (linespace height). Font metrics provide fallback…4 -
Re: Order of execution of OpenType features
Some background: As initially spec'd, OpenType Layout would have been processed purely according to lookup order — i.e. as if all features were applied simultaneously —, with the font maker bein…6
