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

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

Ralf Stubner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:32 -0700, George Williams wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 00:18, Ralf Stubner wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>     
>  
> Thanks for the information. It seems that it does not disappear from the
> font, though:
>
> $ otfinfo -f --script=latn.ISL /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-junicode/Junicode-Regular.ttf
>  RQD    <unknown feature>
> kern    Kerning
> lfbd    Left Bounds
> mark    Mark Positioning
> mkmk    Mark to Mark Positioning
> rtbd    Right Bounds
> $ showttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-junicode/Junicode-Regular.ttf | egrep ' RQD' 
>          Feature[0] ' RQD' Offset=92
>          Feature Table[0] ' RQD'
> $
>
> (This is for Junicode version 0.6.11 from <URL:http://junicode.sf.net/>.) 
>
>
>   
This is because I made the ignorant mistake of actually trying to use 
the feature " RQD". When I corrected that error and regenerated the 
font, " RQD" disappeared from the feature list. And, of course, not 
trying to user the feature, I don't care if XeteX applies it or not.

Peter