Amar Al-Zubaidi

Move the Long-Tailed “Q” From Contextual Alternates to a Stylistic Set

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With contextual alternates (`+calt`), some people will want to turn off the long-tailed “Q” but keep the shorter ‘f’ so that it does not collide with a closing parenthesis, for...

I hope I am not the only one who finds that the uppercase ‘T’ and the following lowercase ‘h’ are uncomfortably close to each other. From my testing, when printing...

The Q with diaeresis is used to indicate the Arabic letter qaaf (ق) when transliterating Arabic. There are two problems with the Q with diaeresis in EB Garamond: 1. The...

The exclamation mark and question mark should look shorter in small caps so that they align with the height of small cap letters. In EB Garamond, they look the same...

Some typefaces have the f’s crossbar intersect with a following lowercase ‘i’ but not an ‘l’. I know that the ‘f’ intersecting with the ‘l’ is how it was in...

Upright Parentheses And Brackets in Italic Text

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I want to typeset all parentheses and brackets upright even in italic text. I can do this in LaTeX using the `embrac` package which automatically makes them upright. The downside...

Sub- and superscripts and scientific inferiors have their own hyphens but not their own en and em dashes. My use for this is to typeset a range of footnote markers...

EB Garamond 08 With `tnum` OpenType Feature Is Not Actually Tabular

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When enabling the `tnum` OpenType feature, the numbers are indeed monospaced, but only for EB Garamond 12. It has no effect on EB Garamond 08, even though the `otfinfo` command...

Swash italics collision for the word "References"

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I noticed a collision when using the `swsh` (Swash) OpenType feature for the word "References" in italics. The end of the "R" collides with the bottom of the "f".

Option to Run Silently (Do Not Print Anything to the Terminal)

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I would like for an option to run silently. Maybe `-s` and `--silent`. It should prevent the messages from appearing in the terminal.