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Re: Which glyphs in SmallCaps and/or Petite Capitals?
There are some characters in Unicode that are lowercase only letters, and you are right that there is a question about how those should be handled in smallcap text setting. Note how I phrase that que…3 -
Re: Subs, sups and ordn lookup
I don’t think there is any good reason for ordinals superscripts to be a different height than other superscripts. Ordinals are just a particular use of superscript letters (which is why I tend not t…4 -
Re: Subs, sups and ordn lookup
We build outward depending on the target text categories for the typeface. All our fonts contain super- and subscript numerals 0-9 (which also have Unicode encodings), needed for footnote indicators,…2 -
Re: fontcreator 14 vs fontlab 7 for variable font development
Re. 3: it depends what kind of font you are making and how complex you need the OpenType Layout to be. FontCreator’s OTL tooling is much closer to the GSUB and GPOS table level than the AFDKO code us…3 -
Re: Is it unlawful or unethical to alter a font?
That will depend entirely on the license under which the font is used. There is no standard within foundry licenses regarding modifying fonts: some foundries forbid it, some require notification (and…3
