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Re: A FontLab 6 intervention
I'm more or less resigned to having to learn a new interface and new work practices, regardless of what new font tools I use. The attraction of FLVI for me is the promise that my very significan…5 -
Re: Webfont vertical metrics strategies
This is how we've been making fonts for Microsoft for many years: 1. The OS/2 TypoAscender and TypoDescender height should sum to the em unit total. I usually calculate this by starting with the…14 -
Re: Fontlab VI messing with my components when generating UFOs
I think a critical distinction must be made between composites and modular shape sources. This is a point that Luc(as) de Groot and I made — strongly, I hope — during the FLVI workshop session at TYP…5 -
Re: Text-On-Path Robustness
In InDesign, the user can determine how the glyphs are aligned to the path. As I recall, baseline is the default, but it is a while since I used this feature.2 -
Re: Fraction Slash
The fraction slash should be diagonal, and is used in linear fractions, but it is possible to use OpenType Layout to provide stacked (nut) fractions (typically as a variant form, with the linear form…6
