Andrew wrote:
> I remember now watching a seminar years ago that the openness of the
> OpenType format is that new tables can be embedded into the fonts as
> required by font developers for their individual purposes. If this
> is true, it seems to me that the presence of a SMuFL table in an
> OpenType font is all that is required. And now that I think about
> it, this table could be used for font metadata too. I don't believe
> that this is a practical approach, but it seems like an option if my
> understanding is correct.
Yes, as I understand it, this is an option, but unfortunately it is
decidedly non-trivial to write custom tables into OpenType fonts, and it's
also non-trivial to read these values (depending on the APIs available in
the environment used by the consuming application). Furthermore, in
general we are trying to avoid recommendations in the SMuFL specification
that are tied to specific font formats or specifications.
So I agree with your assessment that this is not a practical approach.
Daniel
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