Re: [Fontforge-users] Ligature marks

[Peter B. <ps...@vi...>]

I should have written to the list that someone from another list had 
given me this answer. It was foolish of me to have forgotten this pretty 
obvious thing.

Peter

George Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 03:37, Peter Baker wrote:
>   
>> I'm trying to figure out how marks/anchors work with ligatures. I 
>> *think* I have things set up right in the font: make a GPOS lookup with 
>> type "Mark to Ligature Position" and feature tag "mark" in the script(s) 
>> I'm working with, then a subtable with the anchor class I want; and then 
>> put an anchor over each component of the ligature: index 0 and index 1 
>> for a two-part ligature. And of course anchors on my diacritics.
>>
>> If that is right, then what I can't figure out is how it's supposed to 
>> work from a user's perspective. My test case is an "en" ligature, and 
>> the marks I'm trying to test with are acutenosp and macronnosp. The en 
>> ligature comes when "liga" is turned on. In XeTeX and Mellel, if I have 
>> the sequence e<acutenosp>n<macronnosp>, 
>>     
> When you define your ligature lookup you probably need to set the
>   [] Ignore Combining Marks
> lookup flag
>   
>> then there is no ligature, and 
>>     
>
>
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