-
Re: Negative slnt values as per VF spec
I would be surprised if there were any rasterizer or text line-layout implementation that did not interpret data in a variable font according to the spec. John Hudson said: The reason why it was dec…4 -
Re: NeuralType: A Post-OpenType Font Format
What could make this complicated is that layout (i.e., determining final glyphs and glyph positions) could be implemented without any rasterizer interaction, even that APIs can be designed with layou…1 -
Re: Shield Font - anti ai web text scraping via opentype ligatures
Models can also be trained on images of text. I suspect that improvements to LLMs going forward will depend on other factors more than on new text from the Web that might get "shielded". S…2 -
Re: Vertical metrics standards
Being precise, that's not accurate, since GDI itself didn't have any APIs that did multi-line layout. However, it is true that GDI would report that height and things built on top of GDI t…2 -
Re: Examples of Greek capital ου ligature wanted
In terms of text representation and font implementations, I would assume the text representation should be as the sequence "ου" and that letterforms be formed as ligature substitution in th…1
