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Re: bar and broken bar
As Khaled says, the | bar character is used as a delimiter in math; it is also used in various other branches of academic publishing e.g. to mark separation of lines in transcription. For math use, t…3 -
Re: GPOS: How many different anchors are necessary?
I can't really comment on AFDKO, because I don't use it. I had thought, though, that the ignore statement would be like the EXCEPT statement in a VOLT lookup context, which is different fro…3 -
Re: GPOS: How many different anchors are necessary?
If you use lookup subtables, as soon as you get a string match for your input in one of the subtables, all subsequent subtables are skipped and layout proceeds to the next lookup. So they're a u…1 -
Re: How does Adobe's automatic Optical kerning work?
Yes, Hz dealt with various aspects of layout, not just kerning. Hz multi-line justification algorithm is the basis of Adobe's 'paragraph composer'.2 -
Re: GPOS: How many different anchors are necessary?
For a Latin face, most marks can be positioned with an optically centred above and an optically centred below anchor. There are a few marks that require specific anchors, though, such as the right-si…3
