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Re: Early superior letters
Tiberian vocalisation of Hebrew — the kind the Masoretic and modern vowel marking system uses — wouldn't count as superscripts in the sense about which I take Miles to be asking, i.e. small, raised f…1 -
Re: Fontlab VI messing with my components when generating UFOs
I think a critical distinction must be made between composites and modular shape sources. This is a point that Luc(as) de Groot and I made — strongly, I hope — during the FLVI workshop session at TYP…5 -
Re: Kashida-like function for other connecting scripts? (tracking/full-justification of scripts)
I think it is important to distinguish what Erin is talking about, which uses the term kashida, i.e. elongation, as an analogy, from 'kashida justification', which is a set of (incompatible) algorith…2 -
Re: Kashida-like function for other connecting scripts? (tracking/full-justification of scripts)
As Kent says, there's no way to activate GSUB based on tracking values. However, what you could do is contextually insert a zero-width but visible head line extender between every pair of connecting …3 -
Re: Opentype and optical sizes
The <size> feature was mostly a non-starter: it's a hack of the GPOS data structure to store information to make optical master font selection within a family. It never surprised me that most s…1
