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Re: Any app that support OpenType "rand" feature?
Support in font editors does not require anything special as it is just a multiple alternates feature. Support in applications is a different story and AFAIK no mainstream application of OpenType lay…2 -
Re: Monospaced ligatures
In the few monospased fonts that I have seen with ligatures, they looked ugly and cramped so I’d rather not have such ligatures on by default. Ligatures would also break the promise of monospaceness …2 -
Re: Mapping a Unicode range to another
I think whoever wrote that description really got confused or have a pre-OpenType definition of character (which was synonym to glyph) :smile:1 -
Re: Mapping a Unicode range to another
There is no such transformation in fonts. If the underlying text is Hebrew then it will be processed as Hebrew, no matter what glyphs you put in there.2 -
Re: Could this be a new approach to Arabic type design?
I do that all the time, I’ve currently 4 Arabic fonts built this way and they work with any good enough OpenType implementation (Aref Ruqaa, Mada, Reem Kufi, and Amiri Typewriter, if you want example…4
