At 06:47 AM 24-10-02, Otto Stolz wrote:
To be accurate, it works for display of English but not for German. The British convention for using the long-s can be handled contextually, because it does not need to consider whether the letter is occuring at the beginning or end of a syllable. We've implemented this successfully in OpenType fonts using the Historical Forms <hist> feature. German presents a much more difficult problem.David J. Perry had written:An OpenType font that is smart enough to substitute a long s glyph at the right spots is the much superior long-term solution.This will not work, cf. infra.
John Hudson
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