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

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

George Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 14:38, Ralf Stubner wrote:
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>> Ok, some more details. I have the sources for Junicode 0.6.11 here. TH=
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>> sfd file has several GSUB features, first ones being 'rtla', 'smcp',
>> 'c2sc', and 'liga'. LAter on there also is an incorrect 'liag' feature=
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>> 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.
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> As far as I can tell fontforge outputs features in the order you tell
> fontforge to output those features. If you have a counter-example pleas=
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> send me a test case.
>
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>  =20

Someone, somewhere, noticed that the " RQD" feature was not at the top=20
of the list, as it should have been. I don't know how it happened, but=20
when I moved " RQD" to the top, the problems (so far as I could tell)=20
disappeared. Those who use OpenType features in their fonts should=20
probably check this.

Peter