Andreas Stötzner

There is no rule.

> What about d_d?
You decide.
But I’d say there is not much reason for a dd ligature.

I’m not a medievalist myself but I have done much research and font work upon medieavist and linguistics-related characters. I don’t see why it shouldn’t be a worthwhile project to provide these scholar groups with well-equipped fonts in the style similar to Times or Caslon. I’m pretty sure that some potential users would welcome such a choice – for which John’s Brill is a very good option already.

I’m not sure wether this is relevant for Bible texts but anyhow, make sure you include the dong sign, for complete language support.

Congratulations, Mark.
I have recently applied for membership and wait for response.

I circumvent this cumbersome glyph-substitution business, still, with regard to small caps. I do the small caps as a seperate font (yes the old-school way) because I like to keep things simple and straightforward. In the sc font, the position of lowercase ß gets a small cap ẞ glyph. That’s logical and no one complains.