Helmut Wollmersdorfer


At least scientific books should use U+27E8 and U+27E9, as e.g. LaTeX uses them: "Enclosing punctuation" (as I call it) used in the right way has the benefit, that Unicode properti… (View Post)

In practice it's not always easy to extract embedded fonts. Tried it with the character tables of Unicode for the purposes of machine learning. They reduce the fonts to the minimum needed. Some embed… (View Post)

Andron by @"Andreas Stötzner" supports nearly everything. (View Post)

For 20th century there is some information about type manufakturers. VdS Kartei (typeface registration cards of the Association of [German] type manufacturers) ~1910-1950: estimated ~2698 typefaces, … (View Post)

It would be nice to get some additional ideas, what font metrics could be interesting, before I rework my existing programs. First some words about context and intention. My focus is automatic digita… (View Post)