On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Vasile Gaburici wrote: > - DejaVu has positioning issues The positioning issue you see is likely a problem that T doesn't have a cedilla anchor in Serif. Normally an easy fix. That's why renderers should have fall-back options (like Qt has). Usually these fall backs will give less optimal results, but a lot better than nothing at all. > Given that commercial fonts suck at this, I suspect we won't see the > combing method used often. Not for Romanian anyway. It seems however > that adding diacritics to arbitrary letters is useful in Dutch, > according to this post anyway: > [http://www.typophile.com/node/2764#comment-99219] Well, we would need them only in one rare case (when we emphasize the "ij" sound, like "íj́" ) As a result the accent on the j is usually dropped, so it becomes "íj", but official spelling rules want both accents. Anyway, there are many languages with Latin script that are much worse of (a lot of African languages for example), since combining diacritics are needed in an awful lot of other languages. Because font foundries select their character sets based on the market demand, they don't see a lot of merit in adding glyphs and features that are only needed there. So, that's basically something we should exploit with free/open fonts, to give us the lead in these areas. Greetings Ben _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
