Renzhi Li

@rsms Current Word uses DirectWrite everywhere (yes they **ported DWRITE**), but I have no idea how Word 15 on Mac works. There's maybe something wrong with the PPEM, like rounding...

@j4james I am expecting that, the measuring algorithm that I am working on, will return the same results as `wcwidth` if the string doesn't involve proper complex scripts (like Devanagari,...

@j4james I am expecting that for LGC and CJK writing systems, most symbols and pictograms, alongside "simple" Emoji set, the purposed measurer (`TMe1`) will be compatible with `wcwidth`. For the...

Could we just measure the line height from the box-drawing characters? An idea may be rasterize the U+2588 `FULL BLOCK` character and **use the pixel rows that have pure black...

Should we create a format 5 table for maximum compatibility?

@davelab6 I think the problem of large derived matrix (or should I say tensor since it may have more dimensions?) is more like a UI design issue: The UI should...

@Lorp They may not explicitly request, but considering a subfamily `ExtraExtended ExtraLight Oblique`. When deriving it into GDI, this subfamily name will act as a suffix added to the family...

My two options are disjunction instead of conjunction, so the solution is either * The Spec explicitly adds an implementation guide compliance requirement that, when an API implementation is deriving...

@twardoch I think the Spec should include "requirements" and also "recommendations" and "permitted actions". Verbs `must`/`should`/`may`/`can` could be used here. For the STAT issue, "Implementations that derives (RBIZ) virtual families...

@punchcutter In my original post the term used is "`STAT`-derived instance names", so this thread is about names of instances that built from `STAT`, no matter where the instances came...