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Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
The reality is that applications very commonly 'guess' at default line height based either on some arbitrary percentage (120% for InDesign) or the metrics in the font. Typographers who know how to us…2 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
That's a nice idea - thanks. There are multiple scenarios, all of which have reasonable strategies (and variations): * Simple: Just set everything to yMax/yMin. * Thoughtful: Similar to John's approa…2 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
We (SIL) have been working through all of this again in recent months - in the midst of adjusting some of our projects to include more weights and eventually move into variables. We've now come to ma…5 -
Re: Determine whether a font file is OpenType format or TrueType format
We in SIL were using the term as early as 1992 specifically to describe the things that GX would allow. It may be that the term came out of discussions with Apple, but I'm not sure.1 -
Re: Dreaming of a new feature syntax
You may want to look at what we've done with extending the fea syntax to make it more powerful and efficient: https://github.com/silnrsi/pysilfont/blob/master/docs/feaextensions.md The new 'feax' is …2
