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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 -
Re: LibreOffice 5.3.0 adds OpenType Layout feature support
That shouldn’t be an issue if one is using “smcp” feature, since you can activate it for the whole string but it will only apply to lowercase characters (it would be an issue if one is using “c2sc”, …1 -
Re: Where is Arabic Italic originating from?
There are practical problems with slanting Arabic though, a word with no vertical lines like “حب” will not stand much (if at all) when slanted: “حب”, so structural differences are important in Arabic…9 -
Re: automatic spacing correction for locl FRA. Good or bad?
Things that “magically” happen is always an issue when the magic is not a standard behavior; people will be surprised by it and there will almost always be some edge cases that the magic is breaking …2 -
Re: Public domain pros and cons
Mostly that “public domain” differs from a jurisdiction and might even not exist at all: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Public_domain3
