Matthew Butterick

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FWIW the natipkg SSL failure seems to reach back all the way to 6.6.

For the sake of science I checked back to 6.5. That failed too.

I don’t love the navigational sidebar, since it’s sort of a [’90s web-design trope](http://practicaltypography.com/websites.html). Though I’m open to better ideas, I haven’t come up with one: + As you noticed,...

Is it better to have users who read the documentation closely, or not at all? 😉

I appreciate the clarification in the docs. Still, it seems inconsistent to label this an “implementation detail” and move on. The `makeotf` program is held out as the reference implementation...

IOW, by saying “Portions of the syntax unimplemented by Adobe are subject to change”, Adobe is saying that features not implemented in `makeotf` are not truly part of the OT...

I have a tool that folds suffixed glyphs into the default positions of a font source. So I might have `uni2032` and `uni2032.alt`. I want to make the `alt` the...

> instead of swapping out glyphs via Unicode override, swap the names in the left column Meaning, I should rename `uniXXXX` glyphs to something else? Or am I misunderstanding. >...

OK, I see what you mean. Yes, I am also doing substitutions like `A` for `A.alt`. But for those glyphs, I can override the codepoint in the third column, so...