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Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
@"John Hudson" Although it has something to do with perceptual bias it's also serving a function. In Nastaliq (نستعلیق) for example the farther the construction is from the baseline (major …2 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
If you want to bring contrast to your typeface where do you get the contrast in Latin? It's from the tool that writes the script. It could be a broad nib pen or expansion pen. The angle of the pen ca…5 -
Re: Cross-script OpenType feature?
This matter becomes more complex when the direction of the script changes. So it becomes very hard to process the shaping on both scripts in a same segment. Take the following sequence of Unicode str…2 -
Re: Arabic sketching words.
I use these three words as starting point "صد عکس مارپیچ". In persian it means "one hundred twisting photographs"! It helps me to solve a challenging situation where the dots coul…3 -
Re: Glyph names and their Unicode values
Adobe has a special workflow. When they generate the font using makeotf they also feed the app a file named GlyphOrderAndAliasDB. This file contains the information about which glyph name should be c…2
