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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Of course, this brings along its own maintainability problems. BUT, I would say SVGs of ligatures throughout the text are slightly less worse of a problem than non-standard mappings of characters in a font.
Best bet though is to just get a font that is built correctly.  |
Geez, I feel terribly now for all the time and effort you put into that reply! I'm not only a graphic designer (for decades) and so I do understand the difference between raster/vector images, but I've also dabbled a bit in type design as well, so understand that.
I really
do appreciate your reply, though! I guess I just must have misunderstood what it was you were suggesting before (and using your "apple" as an example). And yeah, I agree, my best bet is to find a font that will at least work
reasonably okay for that "olde" part of my book -- but it is a bummer that that JSL font seems to be the only one out there that'll do what I actually want it to do (i.e. look the way I want it to look). :/
But hey, people for whom my "first edition" (with all it's admitted bugs) works will just be lucky -- kinda like scoring a rare incunabulum of sorts
-- and whatever I end up doing for my second edition, well, that'll be what everyone else is stuck with, the "cheap knock-off" (ha ha).
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Meh.. I will continue to help anyone. It is not necessarily helping the original poster, but it may potentially still help someone who is lurking or who stumbles upon this topic in the future.
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Thank you for that (on behalf of "everyone", not just myself)! And that was a very good explanation re raster vs. vector, too, so even though it wasn't really anything new for me, I'm quite sure that it'll be helpful for someone else in the future. Cheers!
