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Re: Problem with Arabic ligatures in MS Word 2019
No, he did mean ZWJ. In Arabic, ZWNJ between normally joining letters will force their disconnected (isol, fina, init) forms. ZWJ will allow the standard joining forms but will interrupt ligature for…1 -
Re: Problem with Arabic ligatures in MS Word 2019
There are two aspects to this: 1. How a font maker assigns individual ligatures to different OpenType Layout features: rlig, liga, dlig, and clig. 2. How an application interacts with the shaping eng…1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
This week, I have been reading a book set in Adobe Caslon and it reminded me that the problem I have with the Th ligature is not its existence but that it is too tightly compressed horizontally: the …4 -
Re: Launch Timing
Dave: I wouldn't equate frequency in Google search terms as a straight equivalence with 'interest'. If we look at what has happened during this period in terms of the concentration of …7 -
Re: Is there a way to control glyph order in glyph browsers?
Yes. In FontLab 7, by default you view the font window in either Encoding order, but if you set Encoding to None you can then order in various other ways, including Index, which will show your the Gl…2
