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Re: Glyph Sidebearings and Text Alignment
I can’t find the documentation that Apple provided for their implementation (which only addresses script-specific metrics, not language-specific ones). I originally proposed the idea to the OT ad hoc…1 -
Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
I don’t think RoyalT itself was cross-platform, and as I recall the first generation of Windows TrueType fonts were made on Macs (by four Monotype staff sent to work at Redmond). VTT was based on a p…3 -
Re: Liga substitution (non-script sensitive)
You should do the substitution in the opposite direction: make β the default beta, and then substitute ϐ when preceded by any letter. This is much more robust than using the /space glyph in the subst…3 -
Re: Programming font charset
You need to ask you client what kinds of programming they are doing, what the content of the programming is, and whether they are handling text strings within the code and, if so, in what natural lan…2 -
Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
The old STIX PS Type 1 fonts and their direct derivatives had lots of problems. STIX Two is a completely different typeface: there’s barely any DNA of the old STIX left in it.2
