Comment by amelius
5 hours ago
Wait, does more informality mean that individual glyphs for the same character can be different even within the same sentence?
5 hours ago
Wait, does more informality mean that individual glyphs for the same character can be different even within the same sentence?
Unfortunately not, that would require a random axis, or a contextual swapping based on adjacent letterforms.
Prof. Hermann Zapf's eponymous Zapfino has the latter --- I even included an animation of it in my paper on it:
http://ftp.tug.org/TUGboat/tb24-2/tb77adams.pdf
Whoa, opulent!