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Re: Hyphen-minus and mathematical operators
Should that be a goal? As a general practice, one doesn’t want to represent one character with the glyph of another character. In the case of U+002D, there is built-in ambiguity, but there is also a …6 -
Re: Unimplement[ed,able] spots in the OpenType spec
Correct. The OS/2 v5 size fields were under-specified in that they did not provide for complex family mappings. They could have been made to work, with some name table additions, but STAT is a better…1 -
Re: Unimplement[ed,able] spots in the OpenType spec
Don’t forget ‘size’. Probably the most batshit conceptual feature.1 -
Re: A new character?
Precomposed diacritic characters were encoded in Unicode simply for one-to-one compatibility mappings with pre-existing 7- and 8-bit encoding standards. Where no such standards existed, there is zero…4 -
Re: Type design hot takes
Nailed it, Dave. :D1
