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Re: About spaces
As Frank describes in detail, there are good arguments to be made for standardising the width of the standard word space, at least within the core members of a font family, and I don’t disagree with …4 -
Re: jalt feature in Arabic fonts: support and practical experiences?
‘Tatweel’ insertion is the common mechanism used to justify Arabic text on computers, which is done as you say: after line-breaking and without re-running shaping. Of course, this means it only works…1 -
Re: About spaces
There’s a general question about spaces in text: should these be drawn as glyphs, or as calculated advances? Some software may ignore glyph widths for all but the basic word space characters, and app…1 -
Re: About spaces
These are the widths I use for various Unicode space characters (presuming a 1000 UPM grid):U+2000 EN QUAD = 500U+2001 EM QUAD = 1000U+2002 EN SPACE = 500U+2003 EM SPACE = 1000U+2004 THREE-PER-EM SPA…4 -
Re: Mixfont Update - seeking a designer to help complete an AI-generated font
Erik van Blokland On generative AI: The whole blog post is worth reading.7
