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Re: How to access alternates through CSS
All OpenType tags are case sensitive: script and langsys tags too, as are sfnt table tags.2 -
Re: Italic letterforms (sans serif)...
Recent versions of FontLab enable slanted virtual sidebearings (I say virtual, because the sidebearings actually written to the font are not slanted). Setting the caret offset value in the font info …1 -
Re: Italic letterforms (sans serif)...
With regard to spacing, the important thing is to establishing a common height between roman (upright) and italic at which to measure sidebearing distance. In a Latin typeface, this is best somewhere…2 -
Re: Definition of 'shaping engine'? (Or, what is HarfBuzz?)
A bit more generally, a shaping engine is used wherever Unicode text is displayed, so not just word processors and page layout applications but also web browsers, mobile apps, embedded systems (e.g. …1 -
Re: How to access alternates through CSS
In CSS it is also possible to apply an OpenType langsys as an excplicit override to document language tagging. So even if a document is not correctly tagged, if you know how you want it to be present…3
