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Re: Determine whether a font file is OpenType format or TrueType format
And here's SIL not only using but defining the term in mid-1996: from NRSI Update #1 – July 1996 I think it is quite possible that SIL personnel first started using the term and the rest of us p…2 -
Re: Determine whether a font file is OpenType format or TrueType format
Some of us were there. As I wrote earlier, I don't recall whether the term was used around the time that GX fonts were announced, but by the time OpenType arrived there was a need to distinguish…3 -
Re: Determine whether a font file is OpenType format or TrueType format
The term 'smart font' was common in the introduction of OpenType twenty years ago. I don't recall, but it is quite possible that the term was also used around the introduction of GX fo…6 -
Re: Determine whether a font file is OpenType format or TrueType format
How one diagrams the relationships of the various sfnt font flavours depends on what aspect of those relationships one considers important. I tend to think in terms of outline format and glyph proces…2 -
Re: Arabic Unicode normalisation
A couple of things to note: 1. Fonts are not responsible for implementing any Unicode normalisation, and glyphs processing isn't bound by normalisation properties and behaviours. Normalisation i…2
