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

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

Ralf,

Fact is, I started learning about OpenType features relatively recently. 
Since my font is Open Source, my learning curve is visible to all.

Thanks for these pointers: I'll correct the errors and take account of 
these as I go along.

Peter

Ralf Stubner wrote:
> BTW, why do you use 'liga' for thinhs like 'Hcircumflex <= H
> circumflexnosp'? IMHO something like 'ccmp' would be more appropriate
> here. And why do define it only for some characters with diacrtical
> marks? 
>
> One other thing: AFAIK one has to add features to all script/language
> combinations for which they should be active. For example, right now for
> latn{ISL} you only define the required feature (why not 'locl') that
> replaces [Tt]horn and eth. If I understand it correctly this means that
> thngs like ligatures or small caps are no longer available when
> latn{ISL} is selected. I don't know why this is the case, though.
>
> I have just tested this with XeTeX: Here the result is indeed that
> ligatures or small caps no longer work when latn{ISL} is selected. In
> addition, the required feature ' RQD' does not work as expected, ie, I
> don't get the nordic thorn. I am not sure if this is a font specifc
> errot (maybe feature order), a fontforge error (the way this
> non-standard feature is implemented) or a XeTeX/ICU error.
>
> cheerio
> ralf
>
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