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Re: font fragility and mid-word styling
Yes, I would agree with that statement. There are places in Unicode where the encoding choice puts too heavy a burden on glyph processing to resolve correct display of text (Mongolian is, to my mind,…1 -
Re: font fragility and mid-word styling
What is affecting the layout problems you show is a glyph processing run boundary at the layout engine level—triggered by a change in font, a change in size, or a change in colour (the latter possibl…1 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
Putting accented characters in a separate patch isn’t a useful idea if the language of a website uses a lot of diacritics. Thats what I mean when I refer to site-specific factors that the foundry can…2 -
Re: How does Unicode work?
After a proposal is submitted, it first goes to the Script Encoding Working Group, which reviews the proposal. The SEW is made up of Unicode staff and invited experts, and they will often ask questio…3 -
Re: Type Design vs Type Engineering?
There is, but it isn’t very well defined in the business, in part because of the absence of any specific educational opportunities for font engineering. If someone had gone through one of the various…1
