[Freetengwar] Tehta placement using mark and mkmk in Eldamar

[Måns B. <in...@ma...>]

Hi all,

As you may or may not know, I am currently working on a font called 
Eldamar which will include all the characters of my previously released 
fonts Tengwar Eldamar, Sarati Eldamar, Valmaric Eldamar, as well as new 
characters from the Pre-Feanorian, Feanorian and New English Alphabet 
revealed in recent publications. A beta of the font is available here: 
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/eldamar/

For the next beta version of the font, I am strongly inclined to replace 
the current tehta placement functionality (using OpenType's calt 
feature), instead using the mark and mkmk features. However, I am 
uncertain about how to handle the fact that some tehtar can appear side 
by side on top of the same tengwa, as well as stacked vertically. Are 
there any de facto standards in the existing Tengwar fonts for how to 
handle this?

I apologize if this has been discussed before; it's been a few years 
since I (or any of us, it seems) worked actively on Tolkien fonts, and 
my memory is a little rusty.

Yours,
	Måns


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