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Originally Posted by Jellby
Then, either the reader the reader does not support enabling the OpenType features, or there is some mistake in the CSS code, or there is a different syntax that will work.
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Interesting... I was on the verge of throwing my hands up in the air and sending off a test epub for you to look at, to see if you could possibly find any errors in my code, but then thought I'd just try substituting the long-ess in my text wherever it was supposed to be -- and lo and behold, that seemed to do the trick! All the ligs seem to now come out just fine.
It's just the long-ess that I guess doesn't "know" it needs to go where it belongs, that's all.
And thank you so much for the
perfect instructions on how to change the dlig entries to liga ones instead! I had no problems with that at all, until I got to the very end...
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When you are finished, export your font as OTF.
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Um, where/how do I export as OTF in Font Forge? I couldn't seem to find that anywhere -- and then I thought maybe it would ask me to do that if/when I went to close the program, but all it did was crash on me (and no doubt not save any of the changes I'd made).
Thanks so much -- this is awesome! And actually a little fun, too!
PS. Oh, another question re editing the font in Font Forge... in that "English" font, for the italic, there's rather a nice "k" character (with a bit of a swashy descender) that would be great to use whenever it's followed by a space. How would I create a "k+space" kinda thing in there, so that it substitutes that character (and keep the space) whenever it encounters that? Or is that something where I should just add/change that on my own, right in my code?
On a related note, I don't know if you noticed, but there's also an intriguing k+comma lig (with the comma underneath the k) in the italic versions of those Fell fonts -- I don't think I've ever seen that before, in any of the countless old books I've ever looked at! Any idea what that character (or ligature) is all about? Is it, indeed, something to be used when the letter "k" is followed by a comma? Very strange -- I really don't recall ever seeing that before.