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Great project! Congratulations! I hope you will see this through and make it into a usable typesetting solution in real-world production environments.

Likely a clean, general public friendly GUI (web app) can leverage RinohType’s back-end power, and thus it’s adoption. Maybe monetize that as a hosted service.

A set of professionally designed stylesheets/document templates would give wider adoption a head start.

From your roadmap, I’d be glad to help you achieve some goals (if you would want me to be of any assistance):

   - Provide a number of standard document/page/font styles

   - Include font definitions for freely available fonts
I’d be happily designing/creating those stylesheets. Selecting high-quality fonts, and extend them with missing glyphs and OpenType features, for high quality typography. However, speaking as a typographer, don’t do this, ever:

     Fake small capitals for fonts that do not provide any

   - Advanced typesetting features such as Knuth-Plass … and microtypography
P.S. Ik woon in Leuven.



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