name table recommendations to include mac platform

[bobh0303]

For the name table, the Recommendations page says:

When building a font containing Roman characters that will be used on the Macintosh, an additional name record is required, specifying platform ID of 1 and encoding ID of 0.

but according to this 2018 post from Sascha Brawer and by evidence of many fonts that work on Apple platforms without Platform ID 1 strings, such is no longer required.

Bob

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• ID: 95e88b53-d670-0240-422c-72748258ab2a
• Version Independent ID: b5fff1ee-cf03-e424-a2dc-aee58e0429e4
• Content: Recommendations for OpenType Fonts - Typography
• Content Source: typographydocs/opentype/spec/recom.md
• Product: typography
• GitHub Login: @PeterCon
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[PeterCon]

Proposed change for next version:

When building a font containing Roman characters that will be used on the Macintosh, an additional name record is required, specifying platform ID of 1 and encoding ID of 0.Names for the Macintosh platform (platform ID 1) were required on Apple platforms, but are no longer required on modern platforms. Some legacy font installers, however, may require names platform ID 1, encoding ID 0.

[PeterCon]

Per review feedback on mpeg-otspec list, revising to "Some legacy software..."