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Two articles about Monotype’s busines travails and HR practices
[Disclaimer: I can’t vouch for the accuracy of these reports, but they come across as well-researched and informed. As far as I can tell, these arise out of Monotype India, but discuss the impact on …9 -
Re: Lithuanian localization
Thanks for the link to the Unicode passage, Denis. I still find it problematic that the standard way of representing those diacritics effectively treats i + combining dot as equivalent to i in this c…1 -
Re: How "beta" is OTVar font format?
The format itself isn’t beta, but FontLab 8’s export profile for the CFF2 flavour of OpenType variable font is flagged that way because it was pretty new when FL8 shipped. I am not aware of any speci…2 -
Re: Lithuanian localization
So this is a little complicated. There is indeed a convention in Lithuanian typography that when accents are applied to the lowercase i, e.g. to mark stress in a dictionary, the dot is retained, unli…8 -
Re: OpenType Features documentation
OpenType Layout features are implemented via lookups, which is what you are coding in the Features panel in FontLab. Several different types of lookup are defined in the OpenType specification for th…1
