Re: [ft] [ft-devel] Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts questions

[Eben Sorkin]

Cyrillic glyphs need two accommodations. The letter Ef in capital form should 
overshoot the usual cap height AND overshoot. Free type should allow for this 
exception in some way. This is a one-off. The other issue is more systematic. 
Small caps in Cyrillic may need to have their own height which differs from the 
one used by the Latin. Again, it would be ideal if free type knows this can 
happen. 

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On Sep 22, 2013, at 12:46 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Werner,
> 
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I have two questions:
>> 
>>  1.  Do Cyrillic or Greek outline fonts exist which don't contain the
>>      ASCII characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9?
> 
> I can speek only about Cyrillic here, but I haven't seen any cyrillic font
> without latin letters and 0-9 digits. It simply doesn't make sence since
> often texts have mixed cyrillic/latin-based context.
> 
>>  2.  Do you know of any Cyrillic or Greek fonts where the lowercase
>>      and uppercase glyph heights differ from the heights of the Latin
>>      glyphs?  Given that all three alphabets share e.g. characters
>>      `A' and `o', this rather sounds implausible, but who knows...
> 
> Again regarding Cyrillic that's not the case, and very often for instance
> truetype fonts (Arial is one of them) have cyrillic glyphs as a composite
> of the existing latin ones with a transform/composition applied: an example
> is: Я -> R with a mirroring transform attached.
> 
> -- 
> Dmitry.
> 
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