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Re: How do you implement ijacute and IJacute?
When working on the Brill fonts, this was something that I discussed at some length with Pim Rietbroek at Brill. They favour use of the precomposed digraph characters for IJ/ij, and I believe they may …5 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
Not quite. The codepage bitfield is for registering what legacy 8-bit codepages the font supports, which is then used by some software — notably RichEdit clients on Windows —to make guesses about fon…4 -
Re: Monotype Introduces New Font Subscription Services
The trouble with the notion of a union in this situation is that we're not employees. We don't work for Monotype. Mostly we work for ourselves. Some of us are also actually employERS. The f…6 -
Re: Final/intial features
As announced earlier in this discussion, I have submitted a proposal to redefine the OpenType Layout features * Initial Forms {init} * Isolated Forms {isol} * Medial Forms {medi} * Terminal Forms {fi…1 -
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
