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Re: Vertical metrics strategy for optical sizes
Option 2 is the usual method, and means that your optical size adjustments are relative to the em square height, which is what gets scaled to the nominal type size in an application. So when you incr…3 -
Re: Font with extremely tall ascenders/descenders in multiline text in Adobe applications
We did production work on the version of Zapfino that ships with Mac OS, and the first release of that font was made—as requested by Apple—with the total overall height of the long extenders close to…7 -
Re: Where do I find which glyphs are required for a given language?
Even if a langsys tag is included in the font with appropriate glyph substitution or other specific behaviour, the whole mechanism relies on too many underspecified things happening in software, such…1 -
Re: Where do I find which glyphs are required for a given language?
Yes, it is how Eliyezer explained it to me. I think there was always an ambiguity in the langsys concept, in that langsys can—and perhaps in most cases does—correspond to writing convention norms or …1 -
Re: Where do I find which glyphs are required for a given language?
I can reliably attest that the authors of the OpenType Layout script and language system tags just invented a name. Because I was the person who invented many of the early ones. At the time (late 199…2
