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Re: Why are composite glyphs not used whenever possible in exported TTF files?
My Amiri font currently has 6223 Arabic glyphs, of which only 512 are not composites. The composites are mostly base glyphs plus diacritical marks, but few of them are a bit more complex. I could hav…3 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
The soft-hyphen (U+00AD) is a control character which tells the application that this is possible hyphenation place (to supplement automatic hyphenation or supplement it), and is such it does not nee…5 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
For a well behaving implementation, it does not matter what you put there as it will be ignored anyway. The double encoding is needed for broken implementations that will try to use the font glyph (e…4 -
Re: The Invention of the Arabic Typewriter
While looking for information about Haddad, I found this which is rather interesting:…1 -
Re: Freitag — toying around with a geometric display sans
This final ح without the horizontal stroke look like a final ﮮ or some huge final ه. If it weren’t for it coming next to the other forms I wouldn’t have recognised it. The first (left most) initial ح…1
