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<p>It's way too early to be make any real plans -- as things stand
there's no proposal for variable composition in CFF2 -- but I can
certainly imagine that whatever document would clarify how
PostScript-style hinting works with composition could also go
deeper into certain implementation questions, either cementing
aspects of the spec or offering one self-consistent approach. And
that the questions addressed that way could be based on the needs
of vendors.</p>
<p>Skef<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/23/23 15:33, Dave Crossland wrote:<br>
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<p>It appears that the technology started with an
implementation rather than a spec and has just evolved
that way.</p>
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<div>I agree, and the implementation in freetype that you
mention may be suitable as The Reference Implementation. </div>
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<div>But, AFAIK, large platform companies are very unhappy
about making standards out of specific implementations
rather than specs (except when its their implementation,
lmao). But since Google and Adobe are fine with the freetype
implementation, then the question is to Apple and Microsoft:
If that implementation was documented, would they adjust
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