I've been playing around with fontlab/openType for a school assignment but I'm not really getting it.
I'm really interested in scripting a font. A teacher told me you don't have a lot of options nowadays since postscript type 3 isn't supported anymore? But you should still be able to do some nice things with openType I think.
What I am after is the following;
I'm making a font that lets all the characters respond to each other. Basically I want to check what the first character of a word is, and let the other characters choose the appropriate glyph based on that.
So, when I write 'nosebleed' (wow, random) I want the o,s,e,b,l,d to choose their glyphs belonging to the n, some something like o.n, s.n, e.n etc.
For the combination CA you could do something like this:
feature replace{
sub C A by C.A; (where C.A is a glyph containing both a C and an special version of the A)
} replace;
But of course, this won't let you change the whole word.
This;
ignore substitute @LETTER f' i';
substitute f' i' by f_i.init;
Lets you change glyphs to make a ligature at the beginning of a word. But can you reverse this? Like; only replace the glyph if it's NOT at the beginning of the word, and replace it by it's version belonging to the FIRST character of the word.
In other scripting languages I would do something like this:
See if the typed character is the first character of the word being typed.
If it is, use the standard glyph. If not, see what the first character was and make the typed character the glyph 'typedCharacter.firstCharacter';
Does anyone know if there is a way to do this? Or something like this? Or something to get me started?
