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Re: What non-English ligatures are there?
@"Peter Constable" cf. Brill, and other fonts that use contextual variant shapes of letters that dynamically ligate, rather than ligature glyphs. See pages 23–25 of this PDF: http://tiro.co…2 -
Re: How Lig. carets are used in FF and how do you know which is which?
If you are using a tool that adds them automatically when you create a ligature glyph, and if you cannot simply delete them, then yes, putting them on the right sidebearing (for a left-to-right scrip…1 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
CID-keyed fonts are a special Postscript font format for efficient packaging of East Asian characters by having the character encoding and name data stored externally to the font and mapped from the …1 -
Re: UPM in a family with web fonts.
It takes fewer bits to store a two digit number than a three digit number, and fewer bits for a three digit number than a four digit number. Large amounts of data in fonts consists of numbers --point…1 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
GID = Glyph ID = the numerical index of glyphs stored in the font’s glyf table (TTF) or CFF/CFF2 table. The count starts at zero, and both the TrueType and OpenType specifications require that the fi…5
