If this request is off limits - please delete it or let me know how to do so myself.
I'm an amateur collector and user of fonts and would like to make some use of opentype features.
I
have both free and purchased fonts. Some of each have opentype features
that I cannot make use of in Scribus, at least not in the versions of
Scribus I have, nor use them in dumber applications. I'm using Linux, so
Scribus is pretty much it for applications with some typographic
control. I cannot see moving to macs or Windows and Adobe for this
purpose.
I would like to be able to make separate font files with characters like small caps and OSFs substituted in. All this is solely for my own use. Nothing I make will be distributed or sold.
Would
I be able to do so through a program like FontForge? And being a total
amateur, where would I look for a guide on such jobs? At a quick glance,
opentype features don't look simple to me. If it is all just too
complex, it's not a big deal, but if there is a relatively simple path,
that would be great.
Comments
Affinity Designer is a current app from the same company, covering some of the same ground, $49.99 for Mac or Windows.
Serif will be releasing Affinity Publisher to beta at some point in the future (in theory before year's end...but they've been down this road before and it has slipped considerably).
That is the layout application from Serif moving forward. While I expect the OTF support to be on par with AD from the outset, other layout features will not be present once 1.x is released for sale. Which means it will not be usable for much of what I do nor how I do it upon release nor likely for some time to come.
Mike