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Originally Posted by Jellby
Well, it's actually not the font, but the renderer who follows the font's instructions. Basically, the font says:
If you want an "s", draw this vector image (this is the "s" glyph)
...but if the "s" is followed by any of these characters (a list of all lowercase letters follows), you should draw this other vector image instead (this is the "long-s" glyph)
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If I understand from what you're saying here that the if I include all that "hist", "liga", "dlig" stuff in my CSS code, then when I write my "olde" text using just a regular "s", then it should change that to a long-ess in the appropriate spots automatically?
If that's what you meant, then it doesn't seem to be working -- not only is the long-ess not showing up, but none of the other ligs like "ct", "st", etc. are either. I just threw together these fonts, CSS and stuff into my ebook to begin the process of converting it all, and I suppose the next step would be to "normalize" all my text, i.e. get rid of all those odd characters and ligatures I had because of that JSL font, and instead just let the device render the ligs/alts automatically, but I'm a little hesitant to go ahead and do that if I can't get it to work right first.
I guess I'm not sure what to do now -- or perhaps I'm asking, I suppose, if you have any suggestions on what to do? All that I can think of is to just go ahead and manually put in the long-ess and all those various ligs everywhere, but in that regard you also said this...
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Well, I wouldn't be surprised if enabling the non-default OpenType features didn't work in ADE. In that case, I would not recommend hard-coding the ligatures, even if you can do that 
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Well, it certainly
seemed to work okay, by putting those ligs, etc. in myself (as you could see in those screenshots I took). And why not just put those ligs in manually here, there and everywhere, if they seem to be working just fine? If it's because of that searching issue, well, like I said there's still the "modern" version of my text, and even without ligs, etc. that "olde" version is almost unintelligible, let alone unspellable, anyway (to the average reader).
I think maybe I might not be quite grasping what you're saying/suggesting?
I'm tired -- I should go to bed. Maybe a good night's sleep will get it to all make sense to me somehow.