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| bio | website | oneiros.de |
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| location | Duisburg, Germany | |
| age | 48 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
| seen | May 15 at 19:10 | |
| stats | profile views | 4 |
TeX user since 1989, mostly LaTeX. For some time maintainer of pdfTeX, since then a close friend of the LuaTeX team.
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Dec 22 |
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What are diacritical marks? As usual: Wikipedia has a lot of information. |
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Dec 17 |
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What's the practical difference between a 'glyph' and a 'character'? It becomes way more complicated when you have scripts like arabic where you have combining characters. |
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Dec 16 |
suggested | suggested edit on What are the best practices and techniques to fix rags? |
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Dec 8 |
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Convert OpenType (PostScript flavor) to OpenType (TrueType flavor) add tags (Comment must be at least 10 chars long) |
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Dec 8 |
suggested | suggested edit on Convert OpenType (PostScript flavor) to OpenType (TrueType flavor) |
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Nov 28 |
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coffee cream effect with photoshop rm tag, not related to typography |
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Nov 28 |
suggested | suggested edit on coffee cream effect with photoshop |
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Nov 26 |
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Can the end of double spacing after periods be dated? The article on TeX explains quite clearly that it's not that simple: The space may be wider, but it's not double spaced. |
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Nov 1 |
awarded | Editor |
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Nov 1 |
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What are beginner’s books on typography? add link (wikify) |
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Nov 1 |
suggested | suggested edit on What are beginner’s books on typography? |
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Oct 30 |
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When should text figures/lining figures be used? I think the question is: Do you really want to user lining and text numbers in a document? |
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Oct 30 |
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How does random choice of alternate characters work in OpenType fonts? The list is here, the archive is here. As you can see, it's pretty closed. :-( |
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Oct 30 |
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How does random choice of alternate characters work in OpenType fonts? In a recent discussion on the Opentype mailinglist it seemed as only TeX supports the rand feature (and maybe some web browsers). |
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Oct 30 |
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When should text figures/lining figures be used? I've seen them used in page numbers (which aren't exactly "running text"). |
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Oct 3 |
suggested | suggested edit on “Serifs improve fast, easy readability for long text” - myth or truth? |
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Sep 27 |
awarded | Analytical |
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Jul 26 |
awarded | Organizer |
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Jul 26 |
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What does “PDF-compatible glyph names” mean? add another tag |
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Jul 26 |
suggested | suggested edit on What does “PDF-compatible glyph names” mean? |
