At 09:46 -0700 2002-10-24, John Hudson wrote:
At 06:47 AM 24-10-02, Otto Stolz wrote:
David J. Perry had written:
An OpenType font that is smart enough to substitute a long s glyph at the
right spots is the much superior long-term solution.
This will not work, cf. infra.
To be accurate, it works for display of English but not for German.
The British convention for using the long-s can be handled
contextually, because it does not need to consider whether the
letter is occuring at the beginning or end of a syllable.
Not even for compounds?
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
