Re: [Fontforge-users] Ligatures and small caps in Junicode

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

Ralf Stubner wrote:
> Ok, some more details. I have the sources for Junicode 0.6.11 here. THe
> sfd file has several GSUB features, first ones being 'rtla', 'smcp',
> 'c2sc', and 'liga'. LAter on there also is an incorrect 'liag' feature=B9
> If I generate a TTF from these sources using ff based on sources from
> 08:15 22-Aug-2006 the resulting font has a different order of the GSUB
> features. It looks like they have been sorted alphabetaically whhich
> means that 'smcp' comes after 'liga'. This causes problems when one
> tries to use the 'smcp' feature on a word like 'file', since first the
> 'fi' ligature is formed and only after that small caps are used. See
> Pablo's message from today.
>
> Current CVS-Junicode solves this by introducing small cap ligatures lik=
e
> fi, but I don't think this is the right approach. At one stage I though=
t
> that correcting the typo in the 'liag' feature was enough to get ff to
> produce a TTF with sensible feature ordering. However I can no longer
> reproduce this. The features are still alphabeticall ordered.
>
> It does help if I move the non-standard ' RQD' feature to the top
> manually. Then the feature list in the TTF seems to be unaltered from
> the SFD.
>
>  =20
How embarrassing that the "liag" error is in the current release.=20
Obviously it's long since been corrected in the CVS version. I'll try=20
disconnecting the small cap ligatures and moving the " RQD" feature to=20
the top of the list. The result should be in the CVS tree tomorrow=20
morning, in case anyone wants to test.

Peter