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Re: Microsoft Word and OpenType Substitions for non-Latin Sequences?
Unicode variation sequences are not supposed to be handled via OTL GSUB. They are pre glyph processing substitutions made at the cmap level using a format 14 cmap subtable. I don’t know if there is a…1 -
Re: calculating word space
Yes, I think the word-spacing property is only active if explicitly used in the CSS code, otherwise font spacing is used (but some browsers may still break OTL at every word space). Some CSS properti…1 -
Re: calculating word space
The CSS word-spacing property seems poorly conceived, and I wonder if its existence contributed to or is symptomatic of the thinking that led browser makers to apply OpenType Layout at the word-by-wo…1 -
Re: Ergonomics for designers
I wrote: Case in point: I replaced the seat this morning, which took about ten minutes. My old seat lasted 20+ years.2 -
Re: Is capital alpha just /A?
Then there are the epichoric (local) archaic forms of Alpha, not all of which would be recognisable as Latin A. And the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) forms of Alpha recorded on seals and coins:5
