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Re: How Lig. carets are used in FF and how do you know which is which?
If you are using a tool that adds them automatically when you create a ligature glyph, and if you cannot simply delete them, then yes, putting them on the right sidebearing (for a left-to-right scrip…1 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
CID-keyed fonts are a special Postscript font format for efficient packaging of East Asian characters by having the character encoding and name data stored externally to the font and mapped from the …1 -
Re: UPM in a family with web fonts.
It takes fewer bits to store a two digit number than a three digit number, and fewer bits for a three digit number than a four digit number. Large amounts of data in fonts consists of numbers --point…1 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
GID = Glyph ID = the numerical index of glyphs stored in the font’s glyf table (TTF) or CFF/CFF2 table. The count starts at zero, and both the TrueType and OpenType specifications require that the fi…5 -
Re: How Lig. carets are used in FF and how do you know which is which?
I’ve always ignored the lig caret aspect of OpenType Layout. It was originally invented with Latin ligatures in mind, where, ironically, it isn’t usually needed because adequate caret positioning can…2
