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On 22/07/2021 22:08, Simon Cozens wrote: > Yes, directwrite doesn't work either (but then DW doesn't really support > variations > too well anyway...). The doc shown in that tweet...

What I think makes sense to me from an API point of view is that `hb_font_set_variations` should set *only* the variation axes that are specifically passed to it, leaving any...

Makes sense as a solution, I guess, if you can figure out a tidy way to do it that covers both scripts handled by the shaper. Though, is it possible...

> In the fonttools subsetter I made it output null offset if a Coverage table is empty in MarkGlyphSets in GDEF. But ots fails on that. > > Null offsets...

That may well be so -- I haven't attempted to check. But Peter's comment at https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/typography-issues/issues/828#issuecomment-959798804 said: > Today, we have to assume that some implementations expect non-NULL offsets to...

For the `letterSpacing` and `wordSpacing` setters, ISTM that supporting font-relative units (resolved at time of use against the canvas's `font`) would be highly desirable. It'd be sad if authors can't...

I don't think Mozilla is exactly "keen" on this -- but we felt it unlikely that webkit and blink would be prepared to drop it, given existing usage. If you...

Do you know whether that reflects only "direct" usage by authors, or does it also include the use of ``, which at least in blink appears to set `-webkit-text-security` via...

Yes, I think I'm the guilty party, though my memory of it is a bit vague at this point. Is it actually meaningful/valid to have tuple coords outside the [-1.0,...

Yes, that makes sense.... but I note that it doesn't cover all cases. The instancer will still need to be able to create additional tuples / tents in cases that...