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Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
While I agree that Latin-first is an outdated mode of font development, I think what that really means is that it is long past time to ditch the whole idea of a single set of vertical metrics for all…3 -
Re: My text face wish list
I don’t think there’s any harm in double mapping your angle brackets to the Dingbat codepoints, but avoid naming them in any way that could be parsed back to those codepoints.3 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
100% willing to have that if some of those environments have the correct linespacing and clipping behaviour. That is a better outcome than all of the environments having incorrect linespacing and/or …1 -
Re: My text face wish list
Canonical equivalence means that text processing may normalise text in a way that actually changes the character codepoints to equivalents, which means that U+2329 and U+232A may be converted to U+30…3 -
Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
Microsoft have this for European writing systems in the Segoe Print and Segoe Script types, which benefited greatly from native expert input on Cyrillic and Greek handwriting.4
