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Re: Somebody Agrees with Hrant about Black-Letter
Yes, that's the point. Saccade length seems to be governed by linguistic content, and varies depending on how language is encoded in a writing system. This indicates that fixations are spaced an…3 -
Re: Somebody Agrees with Hrant about Black-Letter
Note that I didn't say anything about speed, only about saccade length being relative to linguistic content, so the more dense the semantic encoding the shorter the saccades will be. If I recall…3 -
Re: Somebody Agrees with Hrant about Black-Letter
My understanding, from conversation with Nadine, is that eye-tracking studies of Chinese readers reveal that saccades are short and frequent, and that saccade length correlates to semantic load, not …4 -
Re: Internal leading in vertical metrics. Is it necessary?
Because legacy Windows behaviour was to use the OS/2 WinAscent and WinDescent, rather than the Typo– values, the setting of those Win– values doesn't always conform to actual y max measurements …7 -
Re: [otvar] Computing width for text in variable webfonts
Simon, yes, the CSS spec definition only really works if one is mechanically condensing or expanding a static font, such that weight and width are both being scaled horizontally by a given percentage…1
