Re: [css-writing-modes-3] [css-inline-3] Need for new Ahem font version with addition of 1 glyph with Vertical_Orientation property set to U

Here’s the README i’ve included in the project which generates the font:

The Ahem font was developed by Todd Fahrner and Myles C. Maxfield to help test writers develop predictable tests. The units per em is 1000, the advance is 800, and the descent is 200, thereby making the em square exactly square. The glyphs for most characters is simply a box which fills this square. The codepoints mapped to this full square with a full advance are the following ranges:

U+20-U+26
U+28-U+6F
U+71-U+7E
U+A0-U+C8
U+CA-U+FF
U+131
U+152-U+153
U+178
U+192
U+2C6-U+2C7
U+2C9
U+2D8-U+2DD
U+394
U+3A5
U+3A7
U+3A9
U+3BC
U+3C0
U+2013-U+2014
U+2018-U+201A
U+201C-U+201E
U+2020-U+2022
U+2026
U+2030
U+2039-U+203A
U+2044
U+2122
U+2126
U+2202
U+2206
U+220F
U+2211-U+2212
U+2219-U+221A
U+221E
U+222B
U+2248
U+2260
U+2264-U+2265
U+22F2
U+25CA
U+3007
U+4E00
U+4E03
U+4E09
U+4E5D
U+4E8C
U+4E94
U+516B
U+516D
U+5341
U+56D7
U+56DB
U+571F
U+6728
U+6C34
U+706B
U+91D1
U+F000-U+F002

The codepoints which are mapped to something else are the following:

" " (U+20): No path but full advance
"p" (U+70): Path has 0 ascent but full descent
"É" (U+C9): Path has 0 descent but full ascent
Non-breaking space (U+A0): No path but full advance
Zero-width non-breaking space (U+FEFF): No path and 0 advance
En space (U+2002): No path and half advance
Em space (U+2003): No path but full advance
Three-per-em space (U+2004): No path and one third advance
Four-per-em space (U+2005): No path and one quarter advance
Six-per-em space (U+2006): No path and one sixth advance
Thin space (U+2009): No path and one fifth advance
Hair space (U+200A): No path and one tenth advance
Zero width space (U+200B): No path and no advance
Ideographic space (U+3000): No path but full advance
Zero width non-joiner (U+200C): No path and no advance
Zero width joiner (U+200D): No path and no advance
Greek capital letter Chi (U+3A7): Thin horizontal stripe and full advance
"横" (U+6A2A): Thin horizontal stripe and full advance
Greek capital letter Upsilon (U+3A5): Thin vertical stripe and full advance
"纵" (U+7EB5): Thin vertical stripe and full advance.

> On Aug 9, 2016, at 1:01 PM, Myles C. Maxfield <mmaxfield@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Alright, I believe this is fixed now. I’ve tested it on Firefox on Mac & Windows, Chrome on Mac & Windows, Safari on Mac, and Edge on Windows.
> 
> Please let me know how it works for you!
> 
> Thanks,
> Myles
> 
> <Ahem_Myles.ttf>
> 
>> On Aug 3, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Myles C. Maxfield <mmaxfield@apple.com <mailto:mmaxfield@apple.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Whoops. Yesterday I only tested with WebKit on a Mac. It looks like other browsers don't like the font. Please disregard this while I fix it.......
>> 
>> --Myles
>> 
>> On Aug 2, 2016, at 11:26 PM, Myles C. Maxfield <mmaxfield@apple.com <mailto:mmaxfield@apple.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I believe I have done this.
>>> 
>>> The code used to generate the file can be found at https://github.com/litherum/AhemMaker <https://github.com/litherum/AhemMaker> (written in Swift). Please feel free to modify it in any way you like.
>>> 
>>> I modified the file in the most minimal way possible, without changing any of the strings inside the “name” table of the font. The name of the font is still Ahem, so it probably isn’t possible to install both this font and the old font at the same time.
>>> 
>>> For the vertical and horizontal stripes, I purposely placed them off-center so you could tell if the glyph is rotated 180°.
>>> 
>>> The result is attached. Please let me know if you have any problems with it.
>>> 
>>> <ahem_myles.ttf>
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 27, 2016, at 2:39 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net <mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 07/27/2016 02:42 AM, Myles C. Maxfield wrote:
>>>>>> We need to create a new version of Ahem font
>>>>> 
>>>>> I’m happy to do this. I can probably have it done pretty soon, too.
>>>> 
>>>> Wonderful!
>>>> 
>>>> I think the glyphs we need are:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Copy the 'X' glyph (1em black square) to the following characters:
>>>>      一二三四五六七八九十〇囗火水木金土
>>>>      U+4E00 U+4E8C U+4E09 U+56DB U+4E94 U+516D U+4E03 U+516B U+4E5D
>>>>      U+5341 U+3007 U+56D7 U+706B U+6C34 U+6728 U+91D1 U+571F
>>>>   This will allow for basic tests to be constructed with upright CJK codepoints.
>>>> 
>>>>   (We could probably get away with just 水 and 囗, but I figure we may as well
>>>>   go with all the digits, a square-like glyph, and the five elements.)
>>>> 
>>>> 2. Create a glyph that is a 20% centered vertical stripe and another that's a
>>>>   20% centered horizontal stripe, both within a 1em square advance.
>>>> 
>>>>   Assign the horizontal stripe to
>>>>     'Χ'  U+03A7
>>>>     '横' U+6A2A
>>>>   and the vertical one to
>>>>     'Υ'  U+03A5
>>>>     '纵' U+7EB5
>>>> 
>>>>   This will make it easy to create CSS tests for upright/sideways orientation.
>>>> 
>>>>   (The comprehensive testing of TR50 data would need to be done with a much
>>>>   bigger font, one with a different design than Ahem. But this will help us
>>>>   for the CSS aspects of orientation.)
>>>> 
>>>> ~fantasai
>>>> 
>>> 
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