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Re: Opting out of the Universal Shaping Engine
Fonts do not specify shapers. Text path to shaping engine is not determined by either OTL script tag or Unicode block. It is determined by the Unicode script property for each character. So all chara…1 -
Re: Interesting kerning behavior in macOS applications
There are a few real world cases, mostly involving historical orthographies not in current use. Some of the Latin alphabets introduced for Turkic languages in the Soviet Union in the 1920s (and short…2 -
Re: Do we have Conditional Ligature feature only in certain conditions???
I mostly ignore clig and just put any contextual substitutions in either calt or rlig depending on whether I want the user to be able to disable the substitution or not.1 -
Re: Notes on the rendering of Garamond and Caslon typefaces when set at small sizes. Also, a request.
Do you need multiple weights? Or can you make do with regular roman and italic? Perhaps Castoro (which has the added value of bring free, and also comes with a set of tirling capitals)?2 -
Re: Can you do reorder to the glyphs and apply ligature after that?
It is important only to use rphf for the actual repha formation, and also that the lookup output of rphf is a single glyph because the shaping engine tracks the position of that glyph for reordering …1
