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Re: What are 'true italics'?
I don't at all insist that an italic needs to be cursive, although that's certainly a) valid and b) historically the source of italic. The point to me is that italic is a secondary style — not second…4 -
Re: Could we hack into designing a Persian/Arabic braille font?
But you can also do it with text search/replace macro, and that will be more robust than a font substitution, and will produce Unicode encoded Braille characters with correct directionality built in.2 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
Tom, In Type 1 days, some fonts that used the PostScript slant operator for italics. I remember when Linotype sent me the Type 1 Helvetica fonts as source materials for Linotype Helvetica (later Helv…4 -
Re: Ignoring flag for set of glyphs in a substitution
Khaled, I think you're wrong there. As far as I know, mark filtering sets are still expected to contain only glyphs identified as marks in GDEF. Andrew Glass and I have had conversations about making…1 -
Re: Weapon of choice
I gave up on regular mice when I had a repetitive strain rotator cuff injury about about ten years ago. I experimented with a number of ergonomic mice of the kind Jess describes, but in the end settl…4
