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Sweating over this opentype script font's features
Posted by magnus_gaarde in
26 Sep 2006 — 4:22am
26 Sep 2006 — 4:22am
Hi
I cant't seem to make my opentype features work within this script font.
They are supposed to substitute a connecting letter with a nonconnecting letter whenever it is typed as a single letter.
So typing 'Banana' would result in a fully connected word. But typing 'B anana' would give you a nonconnecting 'B' followed by connecting letters 'anana'.
I have been pulling my hair out trying to work out somethin with the opentype tags 'init', 'isol' and 'fina' but obviously something is wrong since it doesn't work.
Heres a copy of the 'isol' tag
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EDIT (something whent wrong in this post also :)
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26 Sep 2006 — 4:31am
Here's the 'isol' feature
sub @LETTERS_UC by @LETTERS_UC_ISOL;
sub @LETTERS_UC_INIT by @LETTERS_UC_ISOL;
sub @LETTERS_LC by @LETTERS_LC_FINA;
26 Sep 2006 — 4:33am
I might just add that this actually works within Fontlab in the preview panel but not in any other programs.
26 Sep 2006 — 4:58am
I'm not sure what programs support "init’, ‘isol’ and ‘fina’, but I don't think most Adobe programs do, if that's what you're using to test.
In addition to those features, you should probably add a "calt" feature, which the current InDesign does support. I've never done it, but I think the "calt" feature can be made to do this sort of thing. See the rather daunting "calt" definition in Adobe's example feature file for Bickham script.
26 Sep 2006 — 5:31am
Oh I see
So I guess the solution would be to make a hell of a long 'calt' feature.
Damn! I might just be too lazy for that ;)
Thanks for the tip though
26 Sep 2006 — 6:13am
Well I didn't have to write a very long feature file to get it to work. I guess you were right about the fact that indesign and other programs do not yet support isol init medi and fina.
I got the thing working by making a calt feature looking like this:
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###replaces the uppercase letter followed by punctuation or numeral with the isolated formof the uppercase letter.
sub @LETTERS_UC' @PUNCTU by @LETTERS_UC_ISOL;
sub @LETTERS_UC' @FIGURES_LINING by @LETTERS_UC_ISOL;
sub @LETTERS_UC' @FIGURES_OSF by @LETTERS_UC_ISOL;
sub @LETTERS_LC' @PUNCTU by @LETTERS_LC_FINA;
sub @LETTERS_LC' @FIGURES_LINING by @LETTERS_LC_FINA;
sub @LETTERS_LC' @FIGURES_OSF by @LETTERS_LC_FINA;
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Thx man you saved my day