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Confused about LOCL vs. other features

nina

So I have just made my first locl feature (to substitute steeper acutes for Polish) and am very happy this works. However, when I select Polish as a paragraph's language in InDesign, this is also the only OT feature that works. All my existing –language UNspecific– features only work when I select any language but Polish (or Hungarian, which also has a language specific feature). I can't even select a different figure style! I mean I can select it, but it doesn't work. It seems like the language thing obliterates/overrides all other options.

What's the deal – am I supposed to specify in the "general" features that they are for any language, and not just the DFLT?
(Apologies – this does feel like it's probably a rather stupid question…)

Chris Lozos

As well as having your {locl} feature, You have to have your language declaration in the very bottom window on the feature section of the OT tab:

languagesystem DFLT dflt;
languagesystem latn dflt;
languagesystem latn MOL;
languagesystem latn ROM;
languagesystem latn AZE;
languagesystem latn CRT;
languagesystem latn TRK;

ChrisL

nina

Thank you, Chris! Two InDesign crashes later,* it now works just great.

* I wish I had refreshed this and seen your image! ;-)

Chris Lozos

I remember a few years ago when Typophile folks helped me through this very thing--and many others!
Thanks, Karsten, Adam, Mark, John, Thomas, Paul, Randy. and all the others who helped me!

ChrisL

Bendy

Sometimes I think there's too much to ever get my head round. Mental note to return to this useful thread when I understand a bit more about Opentype. Who would've thought there's so many possibilities?!

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