[mpeg-OTspec] Toward a Composite Font format specification

[Thomas Phinney]

My first assumption would be that all scaling should include scaling
metrics, though I am mindful of the issues Karsten brings up.

T

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Daniel Strebe<dstrebe at adobe.com> wrote:
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> Thomas,
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> Thanks for chiming in. To clarify, do you mean to advocate scaling
> horizontally within the same design space when you mention faux small caps?
> (Meaning, without increasing the glyph advance width, escapement, and
> kerning values?)
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> Regards,
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> — daan Strebe
> Senior Computer Scientist
> Adobe Systems Incorporated
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> On 09/08/25 21:51, "Thomas Phinney" <tphinney at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> I'd advocate keeping the three different scaling factors (overall, X
> and Y). I can honestly imagine plenty of use cases for them, both in
> traditional and non-traditional cases.
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> One use for asymmetric X/Y scaling is in manufacturing small caps. One
> could use a composite font mechanism to build faux small caps,
> possibly scaled slightly so as to be slightly wider than strictly
> proportional scaling. Ditto for creating numeric (or alphabetic)
> inferiors or superiors. Using the composite font mechanism would allow
> for taking the base glyphs from a heavier weight of the "same"
> typeface....
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> cheers,
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> T
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