Re: Conlang Unicode Font (was Re: Kamakawi Unicode Font Question)

Tristan:
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Another problem is that Latin handwriting fonts can't
use context-sensitive glyphs the way Arabic fonts do (for instance, my
cursive p and b are open when a letter follows, but closed when they
don't --- you can't tell an OpenType font to automatically do that).
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Wow!  You can have a font do that?!  Whenever I typed in Arabic
(or in my Megdevi font, inspired by Arabic), there were just four
keys for every normal character: initial, medial, final, and stand-
alone.
If you wanted to type, you had to remember which key to use
and decide for yourself where you were in a word.  If a font could
do that on its own, so you only had to map the single letters without
worrying about the forms...wow!

-David
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