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Ben Harris [Sat, 16 Nov 2024 02:00:44 +0000 (02:00 +0000)]
Correct cap height in font headers
Ben Harris [Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:45:01 +0000 (20:45 +0000)]
Put version number in glyph complement PDF
Now that we've got the version number in a constant, this is
convenient.
Ben Harris [Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:48:34 +0000 (00:48 +0000)]
Extract version number from C file, not nonexistent SFD
Ben Harris [Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:53:15 +0000 (10:53 +0000)]
Correct ordering of stem hints
The spec for Type 2 charstrings requires that all hstem hints must
occur before all vstem hints.
Ben Harris [Mon, 11 Nov 2024 23:20:23 +0000 (23:20 +0000)]
Ignore stem hints in editor
Though it would be neat if it could display them.
Ben Harris [Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:28:40 +0000 (22:28 +0000)]
Add .DELETE_ON_ERROR target to Makefile
That ensures that output files of a rule get properly deleted if the
recipe fails, which is almost always correct.
Ben Harris [Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:19:54 +0000 (22:19 +0000)]
Make the processing of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH safe
And explain in excruciating detail why it's safe. It's only actually
safe on systems (like POSIX ones) where time_t is an integer type, but
I think that's good enough for me.
Ben Harris [Sun, 10 Nov 2024 10:49:28 +0000 (10:49 +0000)]
Support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
If set, it is used to set the "created" and "modified" fields in the
OpenType 'head' table. This means that builds of Bedstead can be
reproducible.
The current code just casts the "long long" interpretation of the
environment variable into a time_t. This is potentially undefined
behaviour, because time_t might be a signed integer type smaller than
"long long". But I can't find a way to properly range-check it. Even
in POSIX, where time_t is required to be an integer type, there
doesn't seem to be a constant that specifies its range.
Ben Harris [Sat, 9 Nov 2024 23:51:36 +0000 (23:51 +0000)]
Generate stem hints
These are generated from the glyph bitmap by a similar
pattern-matching arrangement that generates the outline. Then, like
emit_path(), there's an emit_hints() that turns them into valid
charstrings. The handling of overlapping hints could be cleverer: at
the moment we emit the leftmost-possible set of hints, but we collect
a histogram of where hints are needed so could instead emit the most
useful. Or even try to do hint substitution.
This makes the Bedstead Web page at 90% zoom much prettier than
before, but it's not as good as the FontForge auto-hinter managed.
Edge hints and counter hints will probably help.
Ben Harris [Fri, 8 Nov 2024 09:37:52 +0000 (09:37 +0000)]
Use my own, officially assigned, achVendID
The assignment is recorded at
<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/typography/vendors/>.
This branch is destined to be the next major version of Bedstead, so
it's a sensible place to make this change.
Ben Harris [Fri, 8 Nov 2024 09:34:18 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
Constants for 'OS/2' achVendID and XLFD/BDF FOUNDRY
Ben Harris [Fri, 8 Nov 2024 09:30:44 +0000 (09:30 +0000)]
Have a defined constant for the family name "Bedstead"
All occurrences of the name in the OTF and BDF files are now derived
from that definition so that they can conveniently be changed together.
Ben Harris [Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:42:42 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
Very rough but apparently functional 'palt' support
Ben Harris [Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:41:20 +0000 (00:41 +0000)]
Change TTXI etc macros to take XML tag name as a string
Stringifying it from a C token may have been more compact, but it was
also quite confusing because those really weren't C identifiers and
everywhere else XML appears in strings.
Ben Harris [Wed, 6 Nov 2024 23:05:54 +0000 (23:05 +0000)]
Skeleton of GPOS support
Ben Harris [Wed, 6 Nov 2024 20:47:20 +0000 (20:47 +0000)]
Put single substitutions in the GSUB table
Ben Harris [Tue, 5 Nov 2024 23:57:51 +0000 (23:57 +0000)]
'aalt' feature implemented via TTX
Ben Harris [Mon, 4 Nov 2024 23:59:09 +0000 (23:59 +0000)]
Beginnings of 'GSUB' generation: a table of the lookups we need
This is now used to generate the 'name' entries for stylistic sets.
Ben Harris [Sun, 3 Nov 2024 18:04:28 +0000 (18:04 +0000)]
Clean up trailing whitespace in bedstead.c
Ben Harris [Sun, 3 Nov 2024 17:37:44 +0000 (17:37 +0000)]
Record proper left sidebearings in 'hmtx' table
That change was more invasive than I was expecting.
Ben Harris [Sun, 3 Nov 2024 17:02:21 +0000 (17:02 +0000)]
Move function declarations after structure declarations
Ben Harris [Sun, 3 Nov 2024 14:22:39 +0000 (14:22 +0000)]
Update editor to read Type 2 charstrings (in source form)
Now the editor displays something useful again.
Ben Harris [Sun, 3 Nov 2024 13:17:23 +0000 (13:17 +0000)]
Update comment on compare_glyphs_by_ffid()
It's not necessary any more, but it does seem to make the output file
smaller so it can stay for now.
Ben Harris [Sun, 3 Nov 2024 09:33:16 +0000 (09:33 +0000)]
Note that TTX overrides hhea.numberOfHMetrics
Ben Harris [Sun, 3 Nov 2024 08:35:40 +0000 (08:35 +0000)]
Adjust indentation of CFF XML
It's not perfect, but it's prettier.
Ben Harris [Sun, 3 Nov 2024 00:16:17 +0000 (00:16 +0000)]
Remove extraglyphs variable that's no longer needed
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 23:02:37 +0000 (23:02 +0000)]
Don't emit unnecessary CFF DICT entries
In several cases, Bedstead uses the defaults, so there's no need to
mention them.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 22:38:16 +0000 (22:38 +0000)]
Remove newlines from charstrings in TTX output
This does make the file rather wide, but I think it also makes it
easier to find what you're looking for.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 22:31:01 +0000 (22:31 +0000)]
Create a subroutine for each aliased glyph
So both the original name and any aliases can then call the subroutine
instead.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 22:10:33 +0000 (22:10 +0000)]
Correct charstring stack accounting in emit_contour()
The first point doesn't count because it gets an rmoveto rather than an
rlineto.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 22:07:23 +0000 (22:07 +0000)]
Make aliases work again, inefficiently
This pulls the conditional that works out how to render a glyph into
it's own function, doglyph(), that also handles indirecting through
aliases. Later maybe we'll properly use subroutines to share the
charstrings for aliased glyphs.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:32:17 +0000 (19:32 +0000)]
Put the charstring cursor in a local variable
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:25:41 +0000 (19:25 +0000)]
Combine successive rlineto operators
In a Type 2 charstring, an rlineto operator can take up to 24 pairs of
co-ordinates, so most contours need only one rmoveto and one rlineto.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 19:24:42 +0000 (19:24 +0000)]
Don't emit first point of a contour twice
Type 2 charstrings implicitly close each contour with a line, so there's
no need for us to explicitly do so.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 17:50:31 +0000 (17:50 +0000)]
Emit 'CFF ' and 'hmtx' tables for TTX (mostly)
The left sidebearings in 'hmtx' are not set yet, and there are (of
course) no hints, but the glyphs are the right shapes.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 17:49:57 +0000 (17:49 +0000)]
cmap fixup
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 16:39:50 +0000 (16:39 +0000)]
Generate 'post' table for TTX
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 16:35:34 +0000 (16:35 +0000)]
Generate 'cmap' table for TTX
TTX currently refuses to compile it, but I suspect that's because the
font still has no glyphs.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 15:26:04 +0000 (15:26 +0000)]
Generate 'name' table for TTX
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 14:41:34 +0000 (14:41 +0000)]
Macros for the common TTX pattern <foo value='bar'/>
That makes things a little less verbose.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:53:55 +0000 (13:53 +0000)]
Generate 'OS/2' table for TTX
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 11:40:09 +0000 (11:40 +0000)]
Use constants for ascent, descent, etc
This way there won't be quite so many magic numbers in the font metrics.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 10:21:58 +0000 (10:21 +0000)]
Generate 'maxp' table for TTX
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 10:16:36 +0000 (10:16 +0000)]
Generate 'hhea' table for TTX
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 10:02:28 +0000 (10:02 +0000)]
Generate 'head' table for TTX
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 08:46:28 +0000 (08:46 +0000)]
Minimal infrastructure for going via TTX rather than SFD
bedstead.c outputs an utterly minimal TTX file containing no tables, and
TTX compiles it into a similarly minimal OTF. Which Ghostscript then
complains about.
FontForge is an impressive application, but it's not well-suited to
being part of a mechanical font-production pipeline. The SFD format is
weird and rather difficult to generate, and FontForge imposes rather
more of its own opinions on the output than I'd like.
TTX is a lower-level format, and while it's a little bit weird, most of
it's weirdness comes from being a faithful representation of the
structure of an OpenType font. Ideally I'd like something a little
higher-level, but a format that's too low-level is much easier to work
with than one that's too high-level. The obvious alternative is UFO,
which is very popular but looks like being a pain to generate from plain
C.
Looking to the future, I like the idea of a variable version of
Bedstead, and neither SFD nor UFO seems to support that very well. In
UFO's case, it seems that the convention is to create UFOs at various
points in the design space and then have a tool interpolate between
them, which seems wrong when they're all procedurally generated from the
same source. TTX will allow me to directly generate the variation
tables, if I can understand how they work.
Ben Harris [Thu, 14 Nov 2024 22:25:08 +0000 (22:25 +0000)]
Wibblings about version numbers
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 01:18:19 +0000 (01:18 +0000)]
Fontmap is required by .bdf.ps files
Ben Harris [Fri, 1 Nov 2024 20:42:22 +0000 (20:42 +0000)]
Add DEFAULT_CHAR to BDF
Also sort properties into the order they appear in the XLFD spec.
Ben Harris [Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:48:34 +0000 (19:48 +0000)]
Correct weight and width names in BDF
They shouldn't have leading spaces.
Ben Harris [Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:43:43 +0000 (19:43 +0000)]
Add FACE_NAME property to BDF
Ben Harris [Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:41:08 +0000 (19:41 +0000)]
Add FONT_VERSION property to BDF
Ben Harris [Fri, 1 Nov 2024 14:39:15 +0000 (14:39 +0000)]
Switch build system to generating BDF via PostScript
As far as I can see, the new BDF files are now as good as the
FontForge-generated ones.
Ben Harris [Fri, 1 Nov 2024 14:38:39 +0000 (14:38 +0000)]
Add support for choosing font size and weight in BDF generation
Ben Harris [Fri, 1 Nov 2024 10:18:14 +0000 (10:18 +0000)]
More BDF properties and a proper XLFD name
Ben Harris [Fri, 1 Nov 2024 00:41:50 +0000 (00:41 +0000)]
Rough Makefile bits for new BDF generation
Ben Harris [Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:34:18 +0000 (23:34 +0000)]
Add rough support for generating BDF without FontForge
This is extremely silly, but it's actually quite functional and
surprisingly compact. bedstead.c gains the ability to generate a
PostScript file that emits a BDF file rendering each glyph into an image
and then dumping the image in hex.
I still need to get the font metadata right, which is my main reason for
wanting to get away from FontForge, but that shouldn't be difficult.
And the Makefile needs to be updated to make this work properly. But
the bitmaps are coming out correctly.
Ben Harris [Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:27:31 +0000 (09:27 +0000)]
Use EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE
This is a bit of C pedantry. POSIX requires that an exit status of
zero is success and non-zero is failure, but the C standard says no
such thing. Instead it provides EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE. Since
Bedstead aspires to work on non-POSIX systems, it should use the
defined constants. Also removing magic numbers is a good thing.
Ben Harris [Sat, 2 Nov 2024 15:18:55 +0000 (15:18 +0000)]
Make it safe to call fullname_to_fontname() twice
Ben Harris [Thu, 7 Nov 2024 23:37:33 +0000 (23:37 +0000)]
Another capital esszett link
Ben Harris [Fri, 1 Nov 2024 20:36:23 +0000 (20:36 +0000)]
Map the .notdef character at U+F1FF
It should be the DEFAULT_CHAR in BDF, but that needs it to have an
encoding. U+2395 APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUAD happens to look
identical, but I don't think I should rely on that.
Ben Harris [Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:39:04 +0000 (22:39 +0000)]
Correct Wdieresis small-cap
Wdieresis.sc is obviously wrong: a capital shouldn't have an 'smcp'
mapping. A 'c2sc' mapping for that character would also be wrong
because it's already squashed to fit under its accent. On the other
hand, there should be a wdieresis.sc that maps to the upper-case,
because the characters are slightly different.
Wdieresis.sc is retained as a compatibility alias (for Wdieresis),
just in case.
Ben Harris [Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:35:03 +0000 (09:35 +0000)]
SAA5050 reverse-engineering links
Ben Harris [Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:34:54 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
Add headings in NOTES
Ben Harris [Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:42:07 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
Move dot in Ldot and corresponding small cap leftwards
It should be centred between the uprights of the Ls, and that makes it
so. Sadly, it's not possible to do the same for the lower-case.
Also add a relevant link to NOTES.
Ben Harris [Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:05:11 +0000 (15:05 +0000)]
Some thoughts on UnitsPerEm
Ben Harris [Sun, 27 Oct 2024 11:56:30 +0000 (11:56 +0000)]
Explicitly set OS2Vendor to 'PfEd'
That's the default value that FontForge uses. I'd like to change it,
but fontconfig makes it available to applications as "foundry" and I
somehow ended up with Emacs recording that in its configuration. So if
I'm going to make that change I think it should go with a major version
bump.
But at least I can make sure it doesn't change unexpectedly and give
myself somewhere to make the change when it comes.
Ben Harris [Sat, 26 Oct 2024 18:00:39 +0000 (19:00 +0100)]
Stop dopalt() reading off the end of the character bitmap
Spotted by GCC -Warray-bounds.
Ben Harris [Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:58:25 +0000 (18:58 +0100)]
Update editor to emit the new style of character bitmap
Ben Harris [Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:25:14 +0000 (16:25 +0100)]
Switch to using string constants for character bitmaps
Future versions of C are likely to make octal integer constants
obsolescent. Switching to something non-obsolete seems wise, and also
using octal character constants saves eight characters per line that I
can use for other things.
I did consider just using one character per row, but I think that might
be a little too hard to read.
Ben Harris [Wed, 23 Oct 2024 21:45:29 +0000 (22:45 +0100)]
Tidy up Creative-Commons-related verbiage in HACKING
Specifically, "declaration" is not a usual noun for CC0, and "Creative
Commons" isn't usually followed by "Corporation".
Ben Harris [Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:17:04 +0000 (21:17 +0100)]
Add some SPDX-License-Identifier headers
In places where they don't get in the way.
Ben Harris [Mon, 21 Oct 2024 08:31:57 +0000 (09:31 +0100)]
Make co-ordinate systems more sensible
The SAA5050 character images appear at the bottom-right corner of the
character cell, with a blank pixel to the top and the left. This can
be seen if you put am alphanumeric character and a mosaic graphics
character side-by-side, since mosaic graphics characters fill the
entire character cell.
However, when I first made Bedstead, I put the character images in the
top-right corner, and the co-ordinate system matched that. When I
fixed this in 2013 (commit
7bea0c6fadc35de50ea08eb184d4b15a7b411ef3),
I just did it by adjusting the final transformation of the vector
co-ordinates, leaving all the internal co-ordinate systems intact.
This was visible when I added mosaic graphics, which had to be offset
by one pixel to compensate.
Now I've finally corrected the problem somewhat properly. Pixel
co-ordinates count from (0,0) in the top-left corner of the character
cell. Vector co-ordinates count from (0,0) in the bottom-left corner
and are offset to the baseline on emission. The conversion between
the two forms is still weirdly spread all over the place though.
Ben Harris [Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:02:11 +0000 (21:02 +0100)]
Update version to 002.009
This release is just to give the Debian build a more sensible base to
work from.
Ben Harris [Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:09:28 +0000 (16:09 +0100)]
State default author/licence in HACKING
Now that all the files are either mine or have other explicitly stated
authorship.
Ben Harris [Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:06:41 +0000 (15:06 +0100)]
Update HACKING document for editor changes
Simon Tatham [Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:05:01 +0000 (11:05 +0100)]
editor: miscellaneous source cleanups.
Apparently I didn't know about chained comparisons when I wrote this
code, so I didn't take the opportunity to write '0 <= x < limit'.
Also, removed the wildcard import from tkinter, replacing it with
explicit references to the things needed. There weren't that many of
them, so I think the 'import *' didn't gain much.
Simon Tatham [Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:52:47 +0000 (10:52 +0100)]
editor: better error message on paste failure.
Apparently I was incredibly lazy at some point in the past and forgot
to say what the problem was when the paste data couldn't be matched
against the regex.
Simon Tatham [Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:50:37 +0000 (10:50 +0100)]
editor: better ways to find the bedstead executable.
Previously the editor just expected to find it in your cwd. Now by
default it looks in the same directory as its own script, which means
you can run it from some other directory.
Also, I've provided a command-line option to override the default, in
case you keep the executable somewhere else again.
Simon Tatham [Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:36:22 +0000 (10:36 +0100)]
editor: put all the Tk work into a class.
The previous code organisation had a tiny 'Container' classlet that
held all the mutable variables, just so that all the event handler
functions could reach into it and modify it without having to faff
with 'global'.
But if you're going to make that much of a class, it makes more sense
to go further, and make all those functions _methods_ of the class. So
here's a reorganisation that wraps up the Tk code into a more or less
conventional class structure.
The patch for this commit looks like a total rewrite, but it's not
really: everything is indented further to the right (with a couple of
reflowings of long lines), and a lot of variables have a new 'self.'
on the front, but in other respects the code is substantially
unchanged.
Simon Tatham [Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:16:31 +0000 (10:16 +0100)]
editor: commit to Python 3.
At the time I wrote this editor, it was sensible to try to be Python
2/3 agnostic. P2 is now thoroughly obsolete, so I've removed the P2
affordances. That lets me fix the shebang line to say 'python3', and
chmod the file +x, so that you can run it by its name.
Also, it can be renamed to just 'editor', because now that it's
executable, the fact that it's in Python is nothing but an internal
implementation detail.
Simon Tatham [Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:19:31 +0000 (10:19 +0100)]
editor.py: add a comment including authorship and licence.
Ben is trying to make Bedstead into a Debian package, which involves
clarifying copyright and licences anywhere it's unclear. When I
contributed this editing tool I did it on a very informal basis ('look
at this fun hack!') and didn't make that clear. Time to fix that.
Ben Harris [Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:35:54 +0000 (23:35 +0100)]
Remove ZVBI-derived comment and code tables from NOTES
For the most part they're not useful, and they're arguably under the GNU
GPL. I've replaced them with an original prose description of some of
the interesting facts. For everything else, you can go to ZVBI itself.
Ben Harris [Sat, 12 Oct 2024 21:55:03 +0000 (22:55 +0100)]
Proper licence etc for ZVBI bits in NOTES
ZVBI is under LGPL v2, but the NOTES file isn't a library so I need to
licence the excerpt under GPL v2 instead. But actually I think I want
to remove that text, so this is just to legitimise the distribution of
the Git history.
Ben Harris [Sat, 12 Oct 2024 16:05:57 +0000 (17:05 +0100)]
Correct SAA5050 ROM encoding
The character at 6/0 is emdash (5 pixels long), not endash (4 pixels
long).
Ben Harris [Sat, 12 Oct 2024 11:45:05 +0000 (12:45 +0100)]
Add a HACKING file that's a guide to the source code
Suggested by Ian Jackson.
Ben Harris [Sat, 5 Oct 2024 11:53:24 +0000 (12:53 +0100)]
Update version to 002.008
Ben Harris [Sat, 5 Oct 2024 11:36:53 +0000 (12:36 +0100)]
Add U+2001 EM QUAD
It's canonically equivalent to U+2003 EM SPACE, so we should have
both.
Ben Harris [Thu, 3 Oct 2024 23:30:30 +0000 (00:30 +0100)]
CSS: switch to monospace
Safari badly misdisplays Bedstead in proportional mode. This is
caused by a bug in WebKit, and I haven't found an acceptable
workaround. Thus, I think the best thing to do is to turn off
proportional spacing on the Web page entirely. I think it looks nice,
but even I'll admit that it's a little too tight, and I know others
prefer the monospaced version.
Also, I can't think of a way that a real chip anything like the
SAA5050 could produce proportionally-spaced text. It's fundamentally
based on getting fed character data at a constant 1 MHz. There's no
way it can ask for a character early because the previous one was
narrow.
Ben Harris [Thu, 3 Oct 2024 23:06:49 +0000 (00:06 +0100)]
CSS: use "background" shorthand property
It's more compact and works just as well. In fact, I think it might
work better on browsers that support background-image but not
background-size. On such browsers the entire rule will be ignored,
which is what I want. If the background image can't appear at
precisely the correct size, it shouldn't appear at all.
Of course, ideally on a browser that fails to display the background,
the title also wouldn't fade out to the left. I wonder if there's a
sensible way to achieve that.
Ben Harris [Thu, 3 Oct 2024 22:16:08 +0000 (23:16 +0100)]
More details on WebKit bug, including link to bug tracker
Ben Harris [Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:01:35 +0000 (21:01 +0100)]
Light HTML modernisation
The "sizes" attribute on the icon <links> wasn't allowed by XHTML 1.0
Strict, so I've removed the DOCTYPE for that. Meanwhile HTML 5
doesn't want you declaring a <meta http-equiv="content-type">
specifying XHTML, so I've removed that as well. So now it's
XML-syntax HTML 5, which seems sensible to me even if other people
don't like XML.
Ben Harris [Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:21:23 +0000 (20:21 +0100)]
Use no-break spaces in Web page
I added them to Bedstead so I may as well use them.
Ben Harris [Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:07:50 +0000 (19:07 +0100)]
Convert the fading <div> in the Web page back to a <span>
HTML doesn't allow <div> inside <h1>. I found before that using a
<span> caused the background not to work. That seems to be down to CSS2
section 10.6.1, describing inline, non-replaced elements: "The height of
the content area should be based on the font, but this specification
does not specify how."
Happily, we can just define this particular <span> to be a block
element, so that it behaves like a <div> even though it's a <span>.
That works fine, and because we're only using it to get a well-defined
content area it doesn't matter if it's ineffective when the stylesheet
is missing.
Ben Harris [Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:47:13 +0000 (11:47 +0100)]
Use EN DASH characters directly in Web page, without entities
The W3C HTML 5 checker objects to my use of "–" and I can't see
any reason why I should use it. The page is unashamedly in UTF-8, so
there's not much benefit to singling out this one character for special
treatment.
The page is still officially in XHTML 1.0 Strict at the moment, but I
might want to change that, which is why I'm paying attention to an
HTML 5 checker.
Ben Harris [Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:58:15 +0000 (10:58 +0100)]
Add the GeoGebra file that I used to sort out PANOSE
Ben Harris [Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:57:22 +0000 (10:57 +0100)]
Correct PANOSE Letterform value and extend to implausible weights
Ben Harris [Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:54:20 +0000 (00:54 +0100)]
Rework PANOSE generation
The code predated the introduction of bold variants, so it was
significantly incorrect. Also it appears that some software uses the
PANOSE classification to distinguish monospaced fonts. After careful
study of the specification, I think all the variants of Bedstead can
be classified as text fonts, so I've removed the code that described
some variants as decorative. Then I did some calculations and a lot
of playing around with GeoGebra to work out which parts of the design
space give which values of Stroke Variation, Letterform, and Midline.
Ben Harris [Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:50:34 +0000 (17:50 +0100)]
A few more subscript letters
Ben Harris [Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:24:26 +0000 (17:24 +0100)]
Generate the backward-compatibility *.sep6 glyphs correctly
They should actually be separated, but I forgot to fix some pasted
text and so they weren't.