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

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 00:18, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> One other thing: AFAIK one has to add features to all script/language
> combinations for which they should be active. 
I believe this is correct.

> 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.
The "required" feature is not "non-standard". The only non-standard
thing is that ff gives it a feature tag which (should) disappear in the
font. Every LangSys table in the GPOS/GSUB header has a pointer to a
(nameless) required feature. FF merely names it for convenience.