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Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
It would likely also result in a different word or a pattern that suggests a different word. The lack of vowels in most written Arabic and Persian makes letter jumbling much more confusing than in En…2 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
On the subject of supplemental fonts containing OTL discretionary variants as default forms — something that I've resisted making, on the grounds that I shouldn't have to bend over backward…7 -
Re: Naming font modifications
It is precisely to avoid having existing documents in the standard font infected by a custom version — or vice versa — that we customise the name when we customise the font. There are too many variab…13 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Right, but the point of control characters is that they don't need to be displayed under normal circumstances, and hence don't require glyphs to be present in the font. The soft-hyphen in a…3 -
Re: 656565656
What's going on is that overshoot is intended to provide a general optical adjustment between flat and rounded forms within a narrow band of space. So typically there isn't a lot of variati…5
