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Re: UPM in a family with web fonts.
It takes fewer bits to store a two digit number than a three digit number, and fewer bits for a three digit number than a four digit number. Large amounts of data in fonts consists of numbers --point…1 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
GID = Glyph ID = the numerical index of glyphs stored in the font’s glyf table (TTF) or CFF/CFF2 table. The count starts at zero, and both the TrueType and OpenType specifications require that the fi…5 -
Re: How Lig. carets are used in FF and how do you know which is which?
I’ve always ignored the lig caret aspect of OpenType Layout. It was originally invented with Latin ligatures in mind, where, ironically, it isn’t usually needed because adequate caret positioning can…2 -
Re: How dotted circle ( place holder for a character ) disappeared ?
Sorry, I don’t use AFDKO tools very often, so I don’t know what that lookup5 code is doing. Back in the early days of OTL support, some layout engines didn’t recognise U+25CC as a legitimate base for…1 -
Re: Greek all caps
Case conversion tends to be something that happens at the application level. It may use libraries or components at the OS level, but since language tagging and things like dictionary-driven hyphenati…1
