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On Apr 27, 2005, at 3:50 AM, Achim Blumensath wrote:
> o Support for many-dimensional font shapes. We need:
> - one axis for roman/italic/swash,
How much ``swashness'' are you allocating?
Zapfino has up to eight variations, and the OpenType spec allows for up
to 20 (ssalt)
I think it'd be better to have one axis for ``shape'' (roman, upright
italic, italic, oblique) and another for swash alternate level (since
one could have swash alternates for roman)
> - one axis for u&lc/small caps/spaced small caps/versals,
I agree w/ Lars that all caps is a better term in English than versals
(unless you're planning on accommodating alternate cap forms here? As
Will Robertson pointed out, one of the problems w/ this sort of thing
is knowing where to stop.)
> - one axis for text figures/lining figure, and
> - one axis for proportional figures/tabular figures.
What about 3/4 size lining figures? Or French old-style (2 has an
ascender) as opposed to English?
William
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