Re: Gutenberg's ligatures (spins off from Re: Tildes on vowels)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 08:26:02 EDT


At 12:07 -0700 2002-08-14, James Kass wrote:
>Michael Everson wrote in response to William Overington,
>
>>
>> I suggest you stop calling it the "golden ligatures collection". This
>> term imputes a status and nobility to it which it simply doesn't
>> have. Indeed, I suggest that you abandon this task and use
>> appropriate font technology to achieve your aims.
>> --
>
>Appropriate font technology for Latin ligature display exists,
>but it isn't enabled yet in Microsoft's Uniscribe.*

That doesn't mean that this particular cataloguing of ligatures in
the PUA is a good idea.

>The Golden Ligatures Collection simply offers font developers
>and end users an opportunity to make use of some rather
>interesting ligatures in a consistent, although non-standard,
>fashion.

That doesn't make it a good idea.

>Some font developers might even elect to map Latin ligature glyphs
>to GLC code positions in addition to offerring GSUB OpenType
>substitution tables.

Heaven forfend.

-- 
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com



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