John Hudson

  • Re: u+00af and u+02c9

    It isn't, so far as I know. It's in the 'things I needed to figure out' category. This is a strategy for making fonts, not a requirement of any standard. The circumstances in whic…
  • Re: u+00af and u+02c9

    Ah now, the answer to that depends on the platform, the specific character and script, whether the glyphs are categorised as marks in the GDEF table, and probably other factors that escape me at the …
  • Re: OpenType to AAT conversion

    I sure hope so. I've started thinking about a possible future TYPO Labs presentation on the hardest things I've had to deal with in the past quarter century, and realise that they're b…
  • Re: u+00af and u+02c9

    Modifier letter marks are not zero-width: these are spacing signs that are used in a variety of ways in phonetic transcription. Combining marks should generally be zero-width, and may need mark-to-ba…
  • Re: Experimental Sans With Overlapping Paths

    Another possible construction model for the top of the M, allowing you to maintain the same offset corner treatment as in other letters. More of a challenge in terms of overall balance, though.
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