Malformed file is a whole another can of worms a good parser should know how to deal with but here it doesn't even format compliant. I think they wanted to dem

Malformed file is a whole another can of worms a good parser should know how to deal with but here it doesn't even format compliant. I think they wanted to demonstrate that their work can slice a stream by offset table, in a declarative fashion. It is a useful property. I think they would've better picked OTF/TTF for demonstration of this particular feature.