Re: Shaping and joining for latin alphabetic script?

> From: Nicholas Bodley [mailto:nbodley@...]

> >> Unfortunately, fonts for such use are likely to require extensions

of

> >> existing standards, perhaps specifying permissible locations on

each

> >> glyph for joining, as well as initial, medial, final and standalone
> >> forms, and perhaps other data.
>
> > I'm not at all sure what you're referring to. There are several

cursive

> > Latin OpenType fonts, but none required extensions of any standards.
>
> Basically, I was concerned with joins between consecutive letters that
> look best; I find it quite hard to believe that free cursive font

design

> for calligraphic continuous-stroke rendering would have a "one

position

> fits all" place to join almost any letter to almost any other.

No, generally the connecting stroke on the right or left for a given
character would need to have variants to match different classes of
adjoining characters.

But there are no standards that require extension in order to this.


Peter Constable