Re: [fontforge-users] Composite small caps

[Mauro S. <mau...@ic...>]

I've already tried everything: inserting the marks into Unicode slots, 
inserting them into PUA... No luck.

Creating dedicated fonts, for example, for small caps, was done with the 
old PostScript, which allowed a standard of 258 glyphs. The advantage of 
TrueType and OpenType is that they have overcome this limitation...



Il 24/08/26 16:23, Gé van Gasteren ha scritto:
> Therefore, I thought you could temporarily copy your PUA .cap marks 
> into the slots for the combining marks and let the routine run, then 
> restore the combining marks.
> . And another thought you didn’t ask for:
> I must confess I don’t feel comfortable using the PUA for a stylistic 
> variant like small caps. I would instead give it its own font – but I 
> don’t know your situation. Maybe your application doesn’t let you 
> combine separate fonts easily.
> People with more knowledge may be able to advise how a small-caps 
> style can be included in a style set.
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM Mauro Sacchetto via fontforge-users 
> <fon...@li...> wrote:
>
>
>     1) "If the script works well with the combining marks, you could copy
>     all your spacing marks into their slots, then let the script do
>     the work
>     (after you have adjusted their horizontal positioning...)."
>
>     I'm sorry, but I still don't understand.
>
>     I have ALL the modifiers (uni02b9-uni20ff) and ALL the combining
>     marks
>     (uni0300-uni0362) properly placed in their slots.
>
>     In PUA, I added some .cap diacritics so that the acute, grave, and
>     circumflex accents are slightly wider and less slanted above the
>     capital
>     letters, and so on.
>
>     With the anchors and the corresponding "mark" lookups in GPOS, I
>     position everything appropriately and indeed quickly obtain the
>     compound
>     glyphs.
>
>     The problem persists only with the usual three .cap marks (grave,
>     acute,
>     and macron): an anomaly because everything else works, and in these
>     three cases, and only in these three, it doesn't. Don't you think it
>     could be a FF bug? Because otherwise, in my opinion, this
>     inconsistent
>     behavior cannot be explained.
>
>
>     2. I don't understand what you mean by saying that apps use composite
>     glyphs less and less. In languages like Italian and French, words
>     with
>     grave and acute accents are constantly used, while in German, they
>     use
>     the umlaut; certainly, not in English... Not to mention Ancient Greek
>     (polytonic), which has a plethora of breathings and accents.
>
>
>
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