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Re: Trackball mouse for type design?
It takes a bit of getting used to. My advice would be to use it exclusively for a week or two before deciding whether you like it. The first couple of day, your thumb may feel weird.1 -
Re: Attaching a Devanagari Vedic Extensions Base glyph with a Mark
HarfBuzz is quite permissive, in that it doesn't insert a dotted circle when a sequence might be considered invalid. The MS engine would insert dotted circle in these sequences, for example, bec…1 -
Re: Versioning
I only rev font version if there is a change to the glyph set, e.g. new glyphs or revisions to a significant number of glyphs. Otherwise I leave the head and name table versions the same but append a…2 -
Re: Attaching a Devanagari Vedic Extensions Base glyph with a Mark
While I understand how it can be helpful to indicate character sequences that break standardised norms, the proper level for that kind of functionality is a spellchecker, not a shaping engine. Such b…3 -
Re: Diaeresis/umlaut height
I tend to align the bottom of the diaeresis dots to the bottom of the i/j dot, but make them slightly smaller in most weights. In heavy weights, the diaeresis dots may need to be quite a bit lighter …2
