Re: Ligatures and Glyphs with new designer X Update
For those with too much time on their hands and want to see what "tags" are available for OT features:
https://www.microsoft.com/typography...eatures_ae.htm
As far as I am aware, there are no applications that handle all of them, all at once. So it is a pick and choose game with developers as to which they support. Some tags/features make no sense to support at a given point in time in an application development. So for instance, if an applicaiton doesn't support RTL input there is no sense in supporting a whole slew of tags that RTL depends upon for proper input/presentation.
Mike
Re: Ligatures and Glyphs with new designer X Update
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Originally Posted by
mwenz
The hist under ligatures is hlig, which are historical ligatures. Which are different from the hist feature.
The hlig is still a many to one gsub feature (gsub = glyph substitution) like other ligature substitution. With the hist feature, which is a one to one gsub) one can write rules to govern how and when single historical characters are substituted via their contextual settings.
Thanks for the reply (I don't understand one iota of what you wrote :-O but I don't think I really need to understand it :)).