jkwchui

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by jkwchui 3y ago
Hi, the tutorial writer here. The first few paragraphs in the tut would give you a sense of what Ash does, but thank you for the comment that its role in comparison with Phoenix should be spelt out at some point. Ash helps provide a thoug
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by jkwchui 3y ago
Absolutely. Eli is a superb dancer and teacher. And if you are under-25, we even offer 50% off the group classes!
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by jkwchui 3y ago
You are correct!
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by jkwchui 3y ago
(Font author here) I whole-heartedly agree. I am a native speaker, and "fluent" in jyutping, yet I have such a hard time with Yale. One service I'm going to build is a mapping tool between {R1, R2, ...Rn} and {G1, G2, ...Gn}
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by jkwchui 3y ago
Thank you. Who is really amazing is Simon Cozens, who wrote a set of articles on fonts/global script: https://simoncozens.github.io/fonts-and-layout/ The history of digital fonts added a great deal of complexity
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by jkwchui 3y ago
Technically yes, but the general public probably doesn't have a concept of zero-width space. (For everyone else wonder what ackfoobar is proposing: let's take the phrase (if you don't read Chinese, just treat them as shapes)
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by jkwchui 3y ago
Color fonts really hasn't converged into a standard, and their adoption is slow. OpenType-SVG was accepted 10 years ago, and it was implemented into FreeType only one year ago --- it hasn't even trickled down to most Linux distro
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by jkwchui 3y ago
(Font author) I have tried, but I couldn't find a way to change font in Spotify app. If you find a way I'd love to know.
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by jkwchui 3y ago
(Font author) This is all off the beaten path, so I suspect the answer is no one knows. Font tables have a limit of 65k characters, but this ceiling can be busted in whacky ways using multiple lookups, useExtension... Practically, font bu
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by jkwchui 3y ago
Hello. Font's author here. You and Jeff are correct in guessing this is (ab)using ligatures maximally :) To satisfy your curiosity, we can go deeper. ---- Conceptually it is simple: 1. assign a default (most likely) sound for each c