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Re: How to best give access to special characters in a font
It would indeed be handy to be able to type e.g. ↗, but don't solve keyboard issues at the glyph processing level. When you type keys on a keyboard, you are inputting character codes, which are what …10 -
Re: The Future of Font Naming: is it still unethical to use the same font name?
1. Come up with great name for typeface. 2. Find that it's already used by some poor quality free font for which the name makes no sense. 3. Go away and release typeface under less good name. 4. Time…3 -
Re: Two Discretionary Ligatures for the Same Letter Combo
A ligature substitution in OpenType Layout is a GSUB LookupType 4 (many-to-one). An alternate substitution is a GSUB LookupType 3 (one-to-one-of-many). So, no, you can't have alternate substitutions …4 -
Re: Variants of the decimal point
I'd be cautious about relying on superscript styling to get an appropriate specific height and size of the period (full stop) dot. Some fonts are going to include a .sups variant of the period that w…2 -
Re: Fontlab 7 aalt-warning
That makes sense, Kent. In fact, one could argue that the aalt feature could be reserved for Access All Alternates Not Otherwise Accessed.1
