Josh Hadley

Unreasonable coupling of `macStyle.italic` vs `hhea.caretOffset` value

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As discussed in https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/issues/1095, it seems [ots's check of `hhea.caretOffset`](https://github.com/khaledhosny/ots/blob/968e5f98ded4b90105ce78724e7af6940702b84f/src/metrics.cc#L52-L57) may be a bit overzealous.

Add workflow to create release

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- trigger on tag push (matching pattern `'[0-9].*'` e.g. single digit followed by '.' followed by one or more characters) - artifacts should consist of .otf and .ttf file

Add workflow to run build script periodically

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Purpose is to catch changes in dependencies and be proactive on toolchain changes. Workflow should: - run periodically (once a week? month?) - diff against latest release - if possible,...

It's great that FontGoggles can use COLR/CPAL. But it looks like it will only use the first defined (index=0) CPAL palette. It would be very cool to be able to...

Several metadata/asset inconsistencies

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I did some detailed analysis on the asset data/metadata and noted several inconsistencies: - [x] Foot: has "unicodeSkintones" but is missing skintone folders - [x] Handshake: has "unicodeSkintones" (with some...

pytest-randomly causes occasional CI failures

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While attempting to [sync dependencies](https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/psautohint/pull/386) between `dev-requirements.txt` and `setup.py`, I re-introduced `pytest-randomly` which was listed in `setup.py` but not in `dev-requirements.txt`. When running the test suite in CI, some test...

Fix sparse master compatible hinting

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In autohint.py, [`hint_compatible_glyphs`](https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/psautohint/blob/c048b63637b32d022443fd8b4f109da6fc2967dd/python/psautohint/autohint.py#L617) currently uses a hack to deal with sparse masters. The root cause is that the C implementation (`_psautohint.autohintmm`) does not support sparse masters. The current workaround works...

[spec] Variable FEA Syntax

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## Description Includes the following changes to the OpenType Feature File Specification aka "FEA Syntax": - proposed syntax for variable scalar values from @simoncozens - proposed syntax for featureVariations from...

Part of the issue #1408 is that `makeotfexe` will error on empty name strings. This should instead be a warning, and compilation of the .fea should continue.

[buildcff2vf] clarify reason for VarLibCFFPointTypeMergeErrors

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## Description Improve reporting of underlying problem when `VarLibCFFPointTypeMergeError` is encountered in `buildcff2vf` Closes #1312 ## Checklist: - [x] I have followed the [Contribution Guidelines](https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md) - [x] I have added...