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Re: Diversifying TypeDrawers
I tend to think of privilege in terms of a matrix in which one can plot various kinds of relative privilege. Although it is unfashionable to say so, I still think that class privilege is the most dom…6 -
Re: Grocer's ₹
My guess, based on typical ductus for writing Devanagari letters — in which the head line stroke is written last —, is that most people will write the R-like part, and then the two horizontal strokes.1 -
Re: The Next Font Format?
That presumes that the spacing in question is something that can be expressed in kerning and class tables. Microsoft's MATH table uses cut-in shape kerning precisely because the spacing involved…1 -
Re: The Next Font Format?
Polygonal spacing remains a tantalising idea. The difficulty is coming up with the right polygons to achieve correct spacing between different glyphs: it's not really solving the problem if one …4 -
Re: The Next Font Format?
Frode, Adobe had a proposal to do something of that in the early days of OT. Of course, the font can't actually see the text block, but the line layout services can, so the idea was that the app…1
