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Re: Can you do reorder to the glyphs and apply ligature after that?
It is important only to use rphf for the actual repha formation, and also that the lookup output of rphf is a single glyph because the shaping engine tracks the position of that glyph for reordering …1 -
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: Open Font Format Layout Tag Registry
The dev3 and ory3 etc tags are non-standard. When Microsoft published the Universal Shaping Engine specification, there was some talk about defining new tags for scripts processed by existing Indic s…2 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
Yes. Part of the value of fonts subsists in the rights associated with their use. Generally speaking, the more rights that a user obtains from a license, the more valuable the font (or, at least, the…3 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
The reason I release typefaces under OFL is because they are worth more money. One of the things I am writing this summer is an article about how to look at value in fonts and, in particular, free fo…3
