John Hudson
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Re: Best practices for .null and .notdef?
NULL* should be zero-width with no contour *Name should be NULL not .null — .notdef should be the only glyph name in a font that begins with . The NULL glyph is not really needed in modern fonts, and… (View Post)9 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
@"Scott-Martin Kosofsky" I’ll try to find out what the original intent of the encoding was, but my suspicion is that no one know or remembers. The character was inherited into Unicode from … (View Post)2 -
Re: Vertical Metrics/UPM - (modular) linespacing
InDesign does not use font metrics for linespacing. Linespacing in InDesign—and in general in design apps that come from a print-first background (unlike screen design tools like Figma)—is always exp… (View Post)3 -
Re: Hoefler&Co sold to Monotype
I don’t think anyone is missing that point: rather, they are making the point that not all those—and numerous other options—are ethically equivalent, either in absolute terms or in the specific condi… (View Post)15 -
Re: Basic characters for scientific publications
That’s more the case in humanities scholarship, I think, and specifically textual apparatus of critical editions. In sciences, superscripts and subscripts are most common in equations, but those quic… (View Post)1
