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Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
You're not alone. I suspect it really doesn't matter at all what a font does with U+00AD: whether it includes it as a duplicate of the hyphen glyph, double-encodes the hyphen glyph, or doesn't suppor…1 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
<calt> is discretionary in the sense that matters to Peter, in that it should have UI access in order to turn off the contextual alternates. This is how the feature was registered (what I class…3 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Very nicely put by E.H. Gombrich in Art and Illusion (1960): ‘The stimulus patterns on the retina are not alone in determining our picture of the visual world. Its messages are modified by what we kn…1 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Let me back up a moment, since I'm the one who introduced the term 'perceptual bias' into the conversation, to clarify what I meant by it. I wrote: In other words, what I am calling perceptual bias i…3 -
Re: Caps taller than ascender
Hang on a minute, Thomas. I don't think Nick was talking about the OS/2 TypoAscender value, but rather about the FL values that correspond to Type 1 record for ascender, cap, x-height, and descender.…1
