From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon Aug 22 2005 - 18:18:51 CDT
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> A refined model would encode special features that give the effective
> semantics of glyph IDs before the GSUB features are applied ...
This is what the Apple 'prop' table does. It allows character-like properties e.g.
directionality, to be assigned to any glyph, regardless of its encoding. I can't imagine
that there are more than a few dozen fonts in the world that actually contain 'prop'
tables, if that many, and most of them were probably made at Apple. I'm not aware of any
significant applications that make use of this technology, but presumably it is available,
via AAT to any Cocoa app under Mac OS X. I don't believe any interest has been shown in
the 'prop' table outside of Apple; it has not been adopted by Microsoft or Adobe in their
extensions of the TT specification.
John Hudson
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