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Re: IPA ligature requirements
All the double-letter combining marks in Unicode are difficult to implement well. You need to plan for base letters of differing widths as well as differing heights, so need multiple contextual varia…3 -
Re: Which typeface is better: Helvetica or Akzidenz Grotesk?
Which Helvetica? The Linotype/Adobe digital version inherited unitised widths, which meant that its sidebearings were wildly inconsistent. It also used the PS Type 1 slant function to produce the ‘It…5 -
Re: Glyph Sidebearings and Text Alignment
I can’t find the documentation that Apple provided for their implementation (which only addresses script-specific metrics, not language-specific ones). I originally proposed the idea to the OT ad hoc…1 -
Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
I don’t think RoyalT itself was cross-platform, and as I recall the first generation of Windows TrueType fonts were made on Macs (by four Monotype staff sent to work at Redmond). VTT was based on a p…3 -
Re: Liga substitution (non-script sensitive)
You should do the substitution in the opposite direction: make β the default beta, and then substitute ϐ when preceded by any letter. This is much more robust than using the /space glyph in the subst…3
