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Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
Can you do it by using html entity to enter a non-existent code? Or maybe by entering the <NUL> code? For instance: � (I went into HTML mode and typed "�" to get that display…1 -
Re: Interesting OpenType Trick
A trivial tangent (speaking of randomness and shuffling): If you take a deck of 52 cards, split it exactly in half, and perform a perfect shuffle (i.e., interleaving one and only one from each half i…4 -
Re: Math symbols placement
When I did the production on an updated Miller Text family for Matthew Carter and Font Bureau back in 2015, we combined three different figure styles that had been drawn over the years — original “S…6 -
Re: Two Discretionary Ligatures for the Same Letter Combo
As John implied, the alternative discretionary ligatures will need to be made accessible through a combination of features — i.e., to get an alternative discretionary ligature, both {dlig} and {ss##}…2 -
Re: Fontlab 7 aalt-warning
Yes, {aalt} accepts type 3 one-from-many, since they resolve to one-to-one mapping. In fact, the results of parsing {aalt} really end up as a type 3 lookup (conceptually, anyway, if not as code) sinc…1
