From: Adam Twardoch (list.adam@twardoch.com)
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 13:53:48 CDT
From: "Andrey V. Panov" <panov@iacp.dvo.ru>
> In Russian (and other Cyrillic alphabets in former Soviet Union)
> typographic tradition the double-angle quotation marks (guillemotleft and
> guillemotright) usually have shape different from French ones: inner
> angles have less size. Look at attachments. Now for Russian texts are
> used special fonts (typically in CP1251 encoding) with similar glyphs
> instead of ordinary guillemotleft and guillemotright. There is no way to
> place
> the both variants in an unicode font.
Such things are addressed on the font level, using OpenType Layout features.
You can include variant glyphs if the guillemots, and create a "locl"
OpenType feature for the Russian language (as well as a "salt" and "ss01"
feature). This is the analogical way that one would map the Serbian Cyrillic
variants for g, b, d, n and t for italic typefaces.
Regards,
Adam Twardoch
Fontlab Ltd.
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