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Re: Create metric-equivalent font
I think the concept of ownership is actually irrelevant, for the reasons you indicate: the rights to the font may be owned by someone who isn’t interested in either financially exploiting them via li…1 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
Rosart was my first thought too, but there are only more fully floriated examples in the small specimen. Maybe there is something closer to this style in the Harry Carter’s Enschedé book?1 -
Re: Quality of webfonts, esp. on Windows
Yes, that functionality was added a bit later, in response to complaints about the loss of x-direction deltas in the first release of ClearType. Initially, it didn’t seem to work reliably.1 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
If you mean obscuring them on the server side, possibly, although the first served subset contains the patch table with all the information necessary to grab the other parts.2 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
Metrical equivalence is a technical workaround to text reflow in font fallback situations. Some of those font fallback situations have to do with licensing, i.e. to the unavailability in a particular…6
