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Re: Follow these steps to create a CYRILLIC LETTER I WITH GRAVE in FontLab 8:
Maybe not ‘wrong’, but certainly sub-optimally. The practice of building composites with spacing accent character glyphs was inherited from the making of 8-bit Type 1 fonts, and has persisted among m…1 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Agreed that model contracts and legal critique of contract terms and plain language explication of what they mean for foundries and designers are needed things. These are among the initiatives discus…3 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Again, your characterisation of all these companies as ‘monopsonist’ is what I take issue with, and where the whole notion of excluding people on the basis of their employment or business relations w…3 -
Re: Diacritics clipped in consecutive lines
Igor’s advice works okay for typical Latin fonts for western European languages, but there are plenty of writing systems, including some Latin ones such as Vietnamese, where the relationships between…3 -
Re: The future of combining marks.
This came up at the OTL implementation meeting last week. Kamal Mansour from Monotype refloated a concept that he and I had first proposed to the OT mailing list a few years ago: a new cmap subtable …1
