Literally everything about this post makes my skin crawl

I have an Adobe font "Minion Pro." It implements greek letters.

I have the italic version of the font. It implements italic greek letters.

Unicode contains italic greek letters in the not-italic context, intended for use with math.

When using Prince to render a unicode-italic-greek-math-plane-gamma, which Minion doesn't have, Prince has the opportunity to substitute regular-gamma from italic-Minion.

Prince substitutes basic question mark instead.

I ... I can't actually decide whether I *want* it to be smart about this.

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Like maybe

--prince-fucking-use-magic-intuition-about-cross-font-font-stuff-font-bork-bork: yes;

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I can almost get what I want out of prince-text-replace but I need font-style because in math gamma and italic gamma mean different things

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For now I'm just going to handle it in markup, but I kind of want to see how you react to such a guttural horror-show of a concept

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This is why we have JavaScript, as an escape hatch for features too horrible to implement.

Edited 3 Nov 2019 by mikeday

😂 😂 😂

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like every time i try to think through the ambiguities i get nauseous

you know there's italic double strike bold down there?

caslon has four equally good ways to half-bake that and they all look different

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