This shortcut system is especially handy for people who rely on keyboard navigation or screenreaders.

Glyph Browsers and IMEs or Input Method Editors are usually designed for mouse-users only.

But it isn't just accessibility for them. Type designers can adapt this Libre script to add codes to quickly access any character they add into the Private Use Area.

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Now let's start to get to some of the more exciting stuff. Attached are images of the first PowerPoint in 37 years to support OpenType features.

Normally glyphs used for OpenType features aren't given codepoints.

If a font DOES do this, then this system means a shortcut code can be set up so OpenType features can be enabled in programs that don't support them…

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Trajecient has launched a Patreon. There are free and open source files available to anyone who becomes a free member with more to come.

I haven't uploaded everything yet, but I have for the first free stuff.

Oh and if YOU do social media promotion and give me the deets, you can get free copies of the non-free stuff.

The Patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/c/Trajecient

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