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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 -
Re: Latin small letter n with macron
Yes, tilde on the n, indicating nasalisation, and macron on the i, indicating a long vowel: Mantramañjarī.1 -
Re: Chaining substitution (?)
It was the normal practice in old Type 1 smallcap fonts, because these usually only had smallcaps in the lowercase character slots. This meant that if one wanted smallcaps to represent uppercase lett…2 -
Re: Fontlab 5 - text in space glyph
Note that the PFM default character applies only to PS Type 1 fonts. OpenType and TrueType fonts will automatically use the .notdef glyph, presuming it is Glyph ID 0 (zero) as specified.3
