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<p class="MsoNormal">In the Recommendations section of the OT spec (see <a href="file:///F:/Source/OpenTypeSpec/OTSpec/recom.htm#cjk">
file:///F:/Source/OpenTypeSpec/OTSpec/recom.htm#cjk</a>), the following guidance is given:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“4. <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
If an OpenType font with CFF outlines is to be used for vertical writing, Adobe Type Manager/NT 4.1 and the Windows 2000 OTF driver require that a
</span><a href="file:///F:/Source/OpenTypeSpec/OTSpec/features_uz.htm#vrt2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#FF5200;text-decoration:none">Vertical Rotation ('vrt2') feature</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
be present in the Glyph Substitution ('GSUB') table. See the Feature Tags section of the OpenType Layout Tag Registry for a description of and further requirements for this feature.</span>”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It doesn’t make sense to me for the spec in 2018 to reference 20-year-old software that are long past their end of life and support. Is this statement still relevant?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Peter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#767171">Peter Constable, Senior Program Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#767171">Microsoft </span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2E74B5">|</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#767171"> Operating Systems Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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