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Re: Cyrillic extension cost
The single most important thing I have learned — in the sense of internalised knowledge — is the relative widths of the letters. Because of the frequency of uprights in Cyrillic text, a lot of care n…14 -
Re: How do I start working on italics?
Start with slanted roman for the uppercase, and spend a lot of time figuring out what you need to do to the round letters and bowls to make them work. That's the best way to understand the diffe…10 -
Re: How do I start working on italics?
I avoid the term 'true italic', except when quoting someone else's use of it, even though I know what it conventionally means in these discussions, and it does make sense in terms of t…5 -
Re: Kerning glyphs with negative sidebearings in initial/final position
Trying to trigger any behaviour based on start- or end-of-line context is problematic, because OpenType Layout lookups have no line layout knowledge. You can fake it, using the kind of context statem…1 -
Re: Dutch IJ exceptions
There are a couple of different aspects to the Dutch IJ/ij vowel. One is as a glyph that can take a distinctive visual form, especially in display typefaces. I suppose this could be considered a …1
