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Re: Units per em
I assume that the winAscent = 975 is because you have Vietnamese glyphs, or some other extreme glyphs, that require lots of head room to prevent clipping. But because this is disproportionate — i.e.,…1 -
Re: Any app that support OpenType "rand" feature?
To support a {rand} feature in a page layout app, something more than just the font and text engine would be required. A routine needs to be included to generate random numbers, then use that result …2 -
Re: Pro fonts with Cyrillic support
Note that not all of the white glyphs in Ray’s image fall in these categories (depending upon how you define “and such” ;-). Some are required for additional, “living,” “minority” language support. (…3 -
Re: Specific diacritic designs depending on language
That may well be true today, but it wasn’t always the case. Historically, for example, see the Spanish fonts cut by Geronimo Gil for Joaquin Ibarra and the Real Academia edition of El Ingenioso Hidal…3 -
Re: Superscript – missing forms
Superscript ¹²³-only is a legacy from MacRoman Postscript Type 1 encoding. Older fonts from that period will tend to have only those three. (Sometimes you find a superscript 4, because one drew it an…3
