18 Sep
2009
18 Sep
'09
4:38 p.m.
Hans Hagen
but even then, if a font is not clear about issues, then one can get unwanted side effects (the frac feature for instance is often quite bugged and can only be applied selectively)
Yeah, I think trying to be fancy with contextual substitutions is a bit like getting drunk. I'm not even sure why there was a "frac" tag when it was originally intended to be converted to "numr" and "dnom" tags. (I just looked at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec160/features_fj.htm#frac to see what it says nowadays and now want to go get drunk.)