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Re: Greek κεραία numeral sign(s)
There seems to remain a convention in Greek legislative texts, akin to use of roman numerals in English texts, that continues to use letters-as-numbers, including the 'numeric koppa' letter…1 -
Re: I am making an Open-source SFNT parser/generator in C, called otfcc.
Reverse chaining basically exists specifically to handle the nastaliq case, and related styles of Arabic. Similarly, you'll find cursive attachment implemented most frequently in cascading Arabi…2 -
Re: The Mysteries of the Unicode Table
Ray: Hopefully Maxim will chime in with a fuller and more nuanced explanation, but in the meantime: Idiomatically, the double-bowl ф works best in types with a vertical axis and an expansion stroke m…3 -
Re: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
The term revival applied to the mid-19th Century use of Caslon really means a revival of use of Caslon, which had fallen out of fashion for some decades. The foundry provided electrotyped matrices to…2 -
Re: Should all-cap tonos suppression be supported in OpenType?
U+00B7 is frequently used as encoding of ano teleia, but the /periodcentered/ glyph is usually sitting too low for ano teleia, which should align with the top dot of ; and :. So it's helpful to …1
