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Re: Kerning not working for uppercase / smallcaps
Your first XeTeX code internally uses two different fonts (one for “W” and one for “aterman”), so no kerning will be possible between the two. The same happens in LibreOffice if you activate smcp fea…1 -
Re: Arabic Unicode normalisation
In addition to what John said, my experience with traditional-looking fonts is that Arabic users expect the sequence لله to give the name of God ligature (full with the shadda and small alef), but th…3 -
Re: Problem in Chrome?
An explanation here would be that since digits are assigned Common script, Chrome is trying to shape them with DFLT OpenType script and the font does not have lookups under DFLT script. Adding a Lati…4 -
Re: Determine whether a font file is OpenType format or TrueType format
Depends on what you want to do with that information, you can either check the first four bytes or check the presence of CFF or CFF2 tables vs. glyf & loca tables.3 -
Re: Kerning glyphs with negative sidebearings in initial/final position
I had similar issue with several Arabic letters, what I did is instead space the glyphs for line boundary situation, and kern them with other Arabic characters as needed. This is more cumbersome, but…3
