[OpenFontLibrary] What sort of weird glyphs do you mean?

Chris Lilley chris at w3.org
Thu Aug 5 09:45:12 PDT 2010


On Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 10:05:24 PM, Fontfreedom wrote:

Fac>  I've noticed in this book that the c's and t's are one glyph(ct). That kind of thing. 
Its called a ligature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature

Fac> (or have people already covered that stuff somewhere?)
Yes
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ko.htm#liga

and example
Rendering Historical Texts With OpenType Features
http://people.mozilla.org/~jdaggett/webfonts/historicaltext.html

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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris at w3.org
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG



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