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Re: Do we have Conditional Ligature feature only in certain conditions???
Ok, we need to back up a little here with some background knowledge. There are two different concepts here: the first is OpenType lookup types, which are kind of like virtual machine instructions. Th…2 -
Re: Metafont – ?
I think there's more to say on this: METAFONT is both too simple and way too complicated. The first thing to note is that Donald Knuth is a genius, and like many geniuses, came up with brilliant…9 -
Re: Implementing some features in a way that swaps glyphs in both directions?
Rules which are part of the same lookup are executed "all at the same time". Please have a look at Lookup application in my font engineering book for how it works.1 -
Re: Can you do reorder to the glyphs and apply ligature after that?
Consider a sequence like င်္က္ကျိ. This will turn out to be something like: ka-myanmar | kinzi-myanmar | virama-myanmar | ka-myanmar | medialYa-myanmar | iMark-myanmar When you form the kinzi_iMark l…1 -
Re: Can you do reorder to the glyphs and apply ligature after that?
The way I handle this in Myanmar is to make a ligature with the IgnoreBaseGlyphs flag set in the rphf feature: feature rphf { lookupflag IgnoreBaseGlyphs UseMarkFilteringSet @abovemarks; sub kinzi-my…3
