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Re: Opting out of the Universal Shaping Engine
The first thing to note is that this is not specified anywhere. I like the idea that the absence of a particular script tag applies DFLT script shaping to characters regardless of Unicode script prop…1 -
Re: Hyphen-minus and mathematical operators
Andreas: I believe it originated in typewriters, where a single key was used for hyphen and for minus—which didn’t really matter, since most typewriter text was monospaced—, and whence to computer ke…3 -
Re: Hyphen-minus and mathematical operators
Should that be a goal? As a general practice, one doesn’t want to represent one character with the glyph of another character. In the case of U+002D, there is built-in ambiguity, but there is also a …6 -
Re: Unimplement[ed,able] spots in the OpenType spec
Correct. The OS/2 v5 size fields were under-specified in that they did not provide for complex family mappings. They could have been made to work, with some name table additions, but STAT is a better…1 -
Re: Unimplement[ed,able] spots in the OpenType spec
Don’t forget ‘size’. Probably the most batshit conceptual feature.1
