Hi,
I am working on a font based on my handwriting and have included instructions for ligatures for the typical ffi ffl etc and also for er ar to ...letters that I normally join in my handwriting.
However the font includes modern greek and polytonic greek...and I want to include some ligatures for a few joined letters in modern greek.
For instance how would I include the substitution for epsilon and iotatonos by glyph FB10 (which at this point is also named fb10)?
I put in the opentype instructions initially using VOLT. When I opened the font in Fontlab there was also a feature called zz01 this basically includes all the same info as the liga feature which also appears. Is this extra feature needed for liga to work?
feature zz01 {
# Latin
language zz01 exclude_dflt;
sub a r by FB05;
sub e r by fb06;
sub f f i by ffi;
sub f f l by ffl;
sub f f by ff;
sub f i by fi;
sub f l by fl;
sub l l by fb07;
sub t h by fb08;
sub t o by fb09;
sub a y by fb0a;
sub t i by fb0b;
sub a u by fb0c;
sub t y by fb0d;
sub o u by fb0e;
} zz01;
I have also tried to use class based kerning using the instructions with fontlab but when I create the font and try to test the kerning the only letters which kern are the initail ones used to set up the kerning group. Am I missing something in settings? Currently in my font there are 1922 kerning pairs, is this extreme?
Any help in any of these areas would be very greatfully received.
Thanks
Neil
