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Wait, does more informality mean that individual glyphs for the same character can be different even within the same sentence?
by amelius 5mo ago
Wait, does more informality mean that individual glyphs for the same character can be different even within the same sentence?
- WillAdams 5mo agoUnfortunately not, that would require a random axis, or a contextual swapping based on adjacent letterforms. Prof. Hermann Zapf's eponymous Zapfino has the latter --- I even included an animation of it in my paper on it: http://ftp.tug.org/TUGboat/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf http://ftp.tug.org/TUGboat/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf
- tasuki 5mo agoWhoa, opulent!
- WillAdams 5mo agoThanks! It was a fun paper to write, but came a bit too late to have any influence --- at the same conference Jonathan Kew presented XeTeX and shortly thereafter luatex was developed, so it ceased to be necessary to stitch together hundreds of .eps files to make a possibly several GB PostScript file which then had to be distilled to a PDF using the commercial Adobe Acrobat.