Expertise isn't always everything (aka When the one who is learning teaches us something important)

Looking at life a bit more vertically, for a moment...

Sorting it all Out — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:19:36 GMT

The question Craig asked me last December was clear enough: When will Windows support a vertical layout

What happens when you involve an unenabled Uniscribe with vertical text, given that Uniscribe doesn't handle vertical text?

Sorting it all Out — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:50:43 GMT

So I got email from a developer colleague the other day. It was that same developer who had previously

The forensic typographers found no link to Lucida Console, and the D.A. had nothing to fallback to

Sorting it all Out — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:02:27 GMT

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Font size scaling -- GDI vs. GDI+

Sorting It All Out — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:02:01 GMT

Please read the disclaimer ! It is probably a good thing that there are people who feel comfortable turning

re: Expertise isn't always everything (aka When the one who is learning teaches us something important)

Michael S. Kaplan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:17:13 GMT

Tested adding it to unrelated fonts that do not claim any vertical support at all? That is a lot less likely. I know they certainly test the EA fonts that are used for vertical....

re: Expertise isn't always everything (aka When the one who is learning teaches us something important)

jmdesp — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:57:25 GMT

I'm a bit puzzled. I never investigated it, but I've seen somewhere a long while ago that the '@' version of those fonts exists to be used for vertical text. So that vertical text starts to work better when you select that version is really, really not surprising for me.

IMO the japanese teams at Microsoft know about it very well and have tested it fully.