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Re: Calibrating weights across variable widths
Well... The model of Weight and Width axes as registered in the OT font variations spec are what I call 'optical' axes*, as distinct from parametric axes. In a parametric design space, one …2 -
Re: Variable Font in Flab VI Problems
We've been using VTT for variable font hinting. It's a bit more work than a straight autohint: after running the VTT autohinter on the default instance glyphs you need to manually enter cor…1 -
Re: Source for Gerrit Noordzij drawing?
Erik van Blokland wonders whether these drawings are by Gerrit at all. Perhaps they might be by someone else, modelled on Gerrit's theories and terminology?2 -
Re: Combining marks advance width
That's really not a good idea. The i and j characters do not have any Unicode decompositions, so will simply appear to layout engines as missing, causing either .notdef display or fallback to an…4 -
Re: Combining marks advance width
For anyone looking at this beyond European scripts: Sometimes it is necessary to class a glyph as a mark in GDEF in order to be able to filter it out of a GSUB or GPOS operation, and this can mean cl…5
