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Re: About spaces
What the character design standard document actually says, as a ‘general guidline’, is So I read this as a starting recommendation for a typeface with typical text face proportions, but you still nee…2 -
Re: Positioning of some Modifiers
In Brill, they’re related to the height of the superior letters and numerals. This is my general approach to all the raised modifier letters and signs. In complex texts of the kinds that Brill publis…4 -
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
