From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 20:29:17 EDT
John Jenkins wrote:
> FWIW, AAT includes an optional 'prop' table which allows people to
> associate a number of Unicode properties -- most notably directionality
> -- with specific glyphs in a font. It *is* a little weird to do this,
> as John says, but it's there.
I debated whether to mention the 'prop' table in my message, but decided it serves best as
an example of the 'awkward fit' to which I referred. The Apple TT reference manual
identifies the 'prop' table as the 'glyph properties table' -- somewhat analogous to the
OpenType 'gdef' table. The mix of specifically glyph and quasi-character properties in the
'prop' table is quite confusing. More to the point, is this table actually used by any
software?
John Hudson
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