Simon Cozens

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1994658/locale-independent-strtod-implementation

Right. Let’s do the sync first (things may be fixed), and then see if it’s already fixed. If not, we can raise an issue. (texk is on GitHub these days;...

My 2c: * Skef's "RPN calculator" approach is cute and of course would work. And I can see that as an extension of the ConditionSet table it is the most...

(1) is easy and probably should be done. We can upgrade the device tables as you say, and use the MVAR mechanism for the scalars. (2) I don't think needs...

It should be easier than that - if the axis is measured in font units, then the engine can simply dial in how big they want the glyph to become.

Right, there's no work to be done on the OpenType side. You can already use FeatureVariations to substitute a GSUB lookup for different parts of the designspace in *any* feature...

> Can you show examples of how it works? It's the same as the example in the variable features branch of the AFDKO spec: ``` conditionset heavy { wght 700...

Currently in GDEF we have a glyph class definition which takes a ClassDef structure but only assigns meaning to four values (base, lig, mark, component) which are special-cased the lookup...

No problem making this feature non-public, but what's the expected replacement? Serializing fonts is extremely useful, as evidenced by the widespread use of TTX.

So for context: we have a Python tool called diffenator2 which is used both in the `google/fonts` onboarding QA process and in the QA process for various Secret Font Projects...