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Re: Numerals in font family names
For the Neue Haas Grotesk fonts Christian Schwartz opted to reinstate a Univers-esque numbered system — with numerals prefixing the style names, e.g., Neue Haas Grotesk Text Pro 75 Bold, Neue Haas Gr…1 -
Re: The best way to reproduce old printed specimens
What I think ScottMartin may have missed in Nick’s original description is that he uses Diffusion Dither for his bitmap conversion, which is akin to a stochastic halftone screen on the midtones. So, …1 -
Re: Robofab margins and component behaviour in Fontlab
The position of a component in a composited glyph is relative to the position of the original reference glyph, which is in turn relative to the origin (0, 0). If you shift the position of an accent g…1 -
Re: Open source implementations for stacked fractions in OTL
As always, John, it is hard to argue with your logic. You know that I respect your rigorous standards-oriented stance. And the italic analogy is compelling. In an ideal text production environment, I…1 -
Re: makeotf error: coverage section too large
FWIW, in the TTX xml representation of a Contextual LookupType, the tables for the various positions are referred to as BacktrackCoverage, InputCoverage, and LookAheadCoverage. I don’t know if AFDKO …1
