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Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
Also, I think Affinity tools remain sadly lacking in any complex script support, and with no easy path to adding it due to insistence on making their own text engine instead of utilising HarfBuzz.3 -
Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
Are you sure of that re. InDesign, Thomas? Last I checked, Adobe’s own shaping engine was still being used for Arabic and most major Indic scripts, with Harfbuzz being used for scripts not supported …1 -
Re: Pricing
@JoyceKetterer: Yes, but I think we collectively forget sometimes that the use rights licensing model of software is itself directly taken from the use right licensing model previously employed, for …3 -
Re: Encoding the unencoded
Yes, but critically they will not have canonical decompositions: they are encoded only as atomic characters, despite the existence of a number of combining mark overlay characters. They’re difficult …1 -
Re: Encoding the unencoded
[On the subject of African language diacritics, I saw this in the London Review of Books yesterday: This is Fred Smeijers’ Quadraat typeface, which the LRB has been using since soon after it was firs…1
