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Re: Visible BOM
Are you making fonts for scripts that have variation selector sequences specified by Unicode? If not, then there really isn't a good reason to include those characters in your fonts. If you are …3 -
Re: FontLab VI Tutorials?
FL7 is definitely better than VI, and I've mostly moved to a combination of FLS5 and FL7. [FLVI is still in use on a couple of projects, though, because of external dependencies.] If someone has…5 -
Re: OpenType GPOS Lookups for Urdu
Yes, this is a long-standing InDesign bug. Frankly, I think Adobe should give up on all its own text processing engines and switch to Harfbuzz for all scripts, including Latin.5 -
Re: New Arabic font system
Making two separate fonts will resolve the need to map two different shapes to the same Arabic codepoint, but you will need to manually select bits of text to apply one or other font. You won't …2 -
Re: Stylistic Sets — have to be consecutive?
I have an admittedly idiosyncratic approach: I used stylistic sets counting upwards from 01 for actual stylistic variants, and I use sets counting downwards from 20 for situations where I've bee…3
