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Re: Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?
Is it begging the question to say it is due to nib angle? There are reasons why scribes hold and manipulate pens in different ways for different script styles. In the case of italic hand, it seems to…1 -
Re: What non-English ligatures are there?
I put contextual pseudo-ligating glyph substitutions in the liga feature, and have not experienced any issues yet. Users expect to be able to disable/enable things that look like ligatures via the li…3 -
Re: What non-English ligatures are there?
@"Peter Constable" cf. Brill, and other fonts that use contextual variant shapes of letters that dynamically ligate, rather than ligature glyphs. See pages 23–25 of this PDF: http://tiro.co…2 -
Re: How Lig. carets are used in FF and how do you know which is which?
If you are using a tool that adds them automatically when you create a ligature glyph, and if you cannot simply delete them, then yes, putting them on the right sidebearing (for a left-to-right scrip…1 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
CID-keyed fonts are a special Postscript font format for efficient packaging of East Asian characters by having the character encoding and name data stored externally to the font and mapped from the …1
