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Re: Initial and Medial-Final Latin characters
No, it wasn't. Greek encodes the final sigma as a separate character, and it is input from the keyboard as such. There has never been any need to try to handle final sigma display as a glyph sub…1 -
Re: Fontlab - Variable Axes Parameters ?
Based on their design, it seems you are aiming to have masters only for extremes of the three axes, with the default instance in the lightest, narrowest, and tallest corner of the design space (the T…2 -
Re: Otf vs. ttf
The .ttf extension was preserved because the TrueType OT format was designed to be backwards compatible to systems that didn't support OpenType Layout tables, so it was possible to install a Tru…9 -
Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
What seems to you 'convoluted' is simply how the people who wrote Greek at that time wrote it. Some writer's hands are more or less complex in terms of the number and kind of ligature …1 -
Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
It wouldn't have seemed 'esoterica' to them. Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, roughly contemporaneous with Gutenberg's development of moveable type, and there was…5
