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Re: BASE table: design and rendering
Where are you testing this? hb-view does not use the BASE table, and don’t actually know any open source application that uses it. You might need to check with some Adobe apps.1 -
Re: BASE table: design and rendering
(HarfBuzz utils are simple tools, they don’t do any script itemization for example, you are supposed to give them single script runs).1 -
Re: Order of execution of OpenType features
The order of features does not matter, but the order of lookups does. However, the lookups of certain features are always processed in a certain order (for example `ccmp` lookups are processed first)…3 -
Re: Reversing glyph sequence
OpenType does not support multiple to multiple glyph substitution. You can use hacks like the above, but be aware that it will mess with the glyph to character. In the example above you might not be …1 -
Re: Combining marks advance width
FontForge will try to guess the GDEF glyph class and most of time it will correctly set mark class for mark glyphs. Some layout engines (e.g. Uniscribe and HarfBuzz) will zero the width of glyphs wi…2