Re: Arrow-glyphs in Feta

[Simon Albrecht]

On 29.12.2016 22:04, James wrote:
> Is it simply for the same reason any font has a separate character that
> is a 'rotated' version of its counterpart?
>
> e.g. '<' and '>' or '/' and '\'
>
> Why*wouldn't*  you make separate font 'objects' for fundamental
> glyphs?

Those have semantically different, well-delimited functions. An arrow, 
however, can occur in any direction, and it seems that the Feta glyphs 
were not designed for use as actual text glyphs, but in close 
conjunction with the _graphic_ markup command \arrow-head, currently 
choosing one of four directions. And for a command to be used in 
graphics, I think rotation would be appropriate.

Best, Simon