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Re: Why do we need two:
Some thoughts on source management with regard to diacritics: Start including the zero-width combining mark characters as glyphs in your fonts, and use these rather than the spacing accents in compos…1 -
Re: Early superior letters
Oh this is much, much later than the Babylonian captivity: 6–7th Century CE. It's Babylonian as distinct from Palestinian (Tiberian), i.e. eastern Masoretes rather than western.1 -
Re: Which letters to design first to base others off of it?
I know a lot of people favour H O n o, and some texts on type design recommend these, but you can't actually create many words or word-like sequence from these letters. That's why I suggest…10 -
Re: Greek κεραία numeral sign(s)
There seems to remain a convention in Greek legislative texts, akin to use of roman numerals in English texts, that continues to use letters-as-numbers, including the 'numeric koppa' letter…1 -
Re: I am making an Open-source SFNT parser/generator in C, called otfcc.
Reverse chaining basically exists specifically to handle the nastaliq case, and related styles of Arabic. Similarly, you'll find cursive attachment implemented most frequently in cascading Arabi…2
