From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Sat Mar 27 2004 - 20:17:41 EST
jameskass@att.net wrote:
> So, if the question is how to make an OpenType font *not* display the dotted
> circle on Windows with Uniscribe, one idea would be to add a spacing glyph to
> U+25CC (DOTTED CIRCLE) in the font. This spacing glyph should be a no-contour
> glyph, perhaps with the same advance width as U+0020. I've not tried this,
> but it might just work.
It should work: Uniscribe inserts the U+25CC glyph that is in the font, so this could be
something other than an actual dotted circle. Another option would be to map the dotted
circle to a non-contour spacing glyph in one of the discretionary OpenType Layout features
such as <salt>, which would allow users of apps supporting that feature (currently only
InDesign ME, so far as I know) to choose whether or not to display the circle.
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com I often play against man, God says, but it is he who wants to lose, the idiot, and it is I who want him to win. And I succeed sometimes In making him win. - Charles Peguy
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