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Multiple dot suffixes in glyph names
FontQA is reporting multiple errors (not merely warnings) with a face due to multiple dot suffixes (e.g. a.sc.alt). However, I'm unclear on why this should be a problem.
Is this something which I can safely ignore, or is it crucial that there be only one suffix per glyph name? I frequently use multiple suffixes and have never run into problems. Are there situations which I am unaware of where this could be problematic. It doesn't seem to violate any specs that I'm aware of.
André
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5 Oct 2011 — 5:54am
This is fine. The only thing to be aware of is that Adobe's name parsing will ignore everything after the first dot, which in this case would be correct.
7 Oct 2011 — 3:00am
The public version of FontQA is rather old, and tends to be over-critical ;) Plus some tests reflect FontFont's internal standards. But even FontFonts are allowed to have multiple glyph name suffixes nowadays.
7 Oct 2011 — 7:30am
Thanks John & Jens,
I was almost 100% sure that I was safe here, but thought I'd ask for confirmation.
André