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Re: Visible BOM
See Helmut's reply and examples. Apps like MS Word and Libre Office have an editing mode that displays formatting characters. To support this, Microsoft recommended having visible glyphs for e.g…3 -
Re: Visible BOM
I think SIL are overthinking this. It isn't necessarily the case the software encountering a VS character will display a .notdef glyph if the font doesn't contain a glyph (visible or otherw…3 -
Re: Visible BOM
Are you making fonts for scripts that have variation selector sequences specified by Unicode? If not, then there really isn't a good reason to include those characters in your fonts. If you are …3 -
Re: FontLab VI Tutorials?
FL7 is definitely better than VI, and I've mostly moved to a combination of FLS5 and FL7. [FLVI is still in use on a couple of projects, though, because of external dependencies.] If someone has…5 -
Re: Contract/agreement for custom font work
It's more like a magic fairy land where I spend up to two years helping a potential client to understand what they want/need before we even get to the contracting*, but when the contracting happ…3
