alt Hacker NewsWait, does more informality mean that individual glyphs for the same character can be different even within the same sentence?
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