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Re: The Terms "Glyph List" versus "Character Set"
It's not entirely fixable, because PDFs can still be made by distilling from a print stream so this situation can still occur, even though other methods of PDF creation — which write character s…2 -
Re: What are the best practices for the hist feature (long s)?
It's not for anything, which is why so few fonts implement it. Like quite a few of the OTL features that were registered in the early days, the {hist} feature was speculative. Adobe thought it w…2 -
Re: It's not a perfect ellipse, why?
I don't know what the method was for creating that particular letter, but it isn't unusual to start with a basic ellipse (not necessarily a circle) and then edit the nodes and handles to ge…2 -
Re: What are the best practices for the hist feature (long s)?
What James said: the long s is a distinct orthographic character, not simply a variant of the common s, with varying conventions in different languages and periods. It's use is akin to that of t…2 -
Re: It's not a perfect ellipse, why?
[Still wrong image, I think. The one you linked to in the text seems to meet your description.] You ask why the letterform isn't a perfect ellipse. I might respond by asking why you would expect…5
