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jkwchui

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    Comment #37801511

    Hi, the tutorial writer here. The first few paragraphs in the tut would give you a sense of what Ash does, but thank you for the comment that its role in comparison with Phoenix sh…

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    Comment #35912561

    Absolutely. Eli is a superb dancer and teacher. And if you are under-25, we even offer 50% off the group classes!

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    Comment #35874007

    You are correct!

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    Comment #35873978

    (Font author here) I whole-heartedly agree. I am a native speaker, and "fluent" in jyutping, yet I have such a hard time with Yale. One service I'm going to build is a mapping tool…

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    Comment #35873822

    Thank you. Who is really amazing is Simon Cozens, who wrote a set of articles on fonts/global script: https://simoncozens.github.io/fonts-and-layout/ The history of digital fonts a…

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    Comment #35873770

    Technically yes, but the general public probably doesn't have a concept of zero-width space. (For everyone else wonder what ackfoobar is proposing: let's take the phrase (if you do…

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    Comment #35873499

    Color fonts really hasn't converged into a standard, and their adoption is slow. OpenType-SVG was accepted 10 years ago, and it was implemented into FreeType only one year ago --- …

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    Comment #35870874

    (Font author) I have tried, but I couldn't find a way to change font in Spotify app. If you find a way I'd love to know.

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    Comment #35870867

    (Font author) This is all off the beaten path, so I suspect the answer is no one knows. Font tables have a limit of 65k characters, but this ceiling can be busted in whacky ways us…

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    Comment #35870837

    Hello. Font's author here. You and Jeff are correct in guessing this is (ab)using ligatures maximally :) To satisfy your curiosity, we can go deeper. ---- Conceptually it is simple…