John Hudson

Backing up a bit: the revised init (medi, fina, and isol) feature descriptions came about because the old ones didn't accurately describe what shaping engines were actually doing. The original...

PS. If Microsoft had decided to require the Bengali initial vowel sign substitution to be handled using contextual substitution, rather than via init, they would presumably have very quickly realised...

It’s sort of typical of the OTL feature specifications that the init feature would state—at least before the rewrite, and still for beng and bng2—that the feature should be applied...

I’ve not seen the ikar get a word-initial form. The ductus of the letter is different from the ekar shape, so doesn't lend itself in the same way to a...

What we’re finding is that the format of fvar `postScriptNameID` that resolves the confusion of variable family handling in InDesign is actually contrary to normal PS name conventions, in that...

Yes, users suffer because of bugs, and the way to stop their suffering is to fix the bugs. Sorry, but I have a long experience of the unintended consequences of...

I don’t think it is a matter of a contest of strength. Adobe have always needed help implementing OpenType: I and others have had to explain a lot of things...

I am in touch with an InDesign product manager about this issue. The InDesign developers obviously understand font families when it comes to static fonts, so I am not unhopeful...

In the STIX Two Text variable fonts ([v2.12 going live probably some time today](https://github.com/stipub/stixfonts)), we found we could obtain correct behaviour in InDesign by only providing name ID25 entries: we...

@punchcutter Any update on this Zachary? I am wondering if this or similar name issue might also be playing a role in this InDesign variable font printing issue reported by...