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Re: .sc and .a glyph types
Adobe insist on a one-to-one mapping from characters to glyph variants that can be back-traced by parsing the glyph name. This means that they need to duplicate smallcap glyphs to distinguish those m…6 -
Re: Parametric vs Interpolated fonts
Decovar — like Amstelvar — is a proof of concept, showing what it is possible to do in the design space using a parametric approach. It exposes, as you have noted, limitations in the current OT varia…1 -
Re: <aalt> before <ccmp>
Correct. For what it's worth: in twenty years I have never bothered to implement the aalt feature in any fonts. It's a silly feature. Adobe thought they would need it in order to implement …4 -
Re: <aalt> before <ccmp>
That's my understanding too. It's the reason why I almost always explicitly program the lookups independently and then reference them in the feature code (on those few occasions when I'…2 -
Re: <aalt> before <ccmp>
For European scripts, locl and ccmp get processed first in most (all?) layout engines. After that, OTL is processed according to GSUB and then GPOS lookup order. For complex scripts, additional featu…2
