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georgd / EB-Garamond

Digitization of the Garamond shown on the Egenolff-Berner specimen
http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Ligatures with -s after small vowels with diacritics in italic style #66

Open carbeck opened 10 years ago

carbeck commented 10 years ago

As far as I can see, if a small letter s follows a small vowel with a diacritic, its shape does not change in the same way as following a regular small vowel does in the italic version:

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I was wondering if that is a deliberate decision, or just bells and whistles not addressed yet?

georgd commented 10 years ago

It’s the bells and whistles thing. I’m not sure yet if I want one glyph per combination or rather decompose the accented glyphs and use the mark to ligature lookup.

carbeck commented 10 years ago

OK, but is there a way in LibreOffice Writer (current version is 4.2) to switch the ligatures off, for consistency? As far as I can see, your font uses OpenType, not Graphite. Or do I have to use U+200B (ZWNJ) between the characters as a workaround?

georgd commented 10 years ago

I think, U+200B is the only method in LO Writer at the moment. I hope, they’ll implement an interface for opentype features “soon” (monitor this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58941).

Waidanian commented 10 years ago

I recently left a comment on this bug about a possible way to implement advanced typographic features in an ODF extension using the CSS3 Fonts vocabulary. I emphasize the advantage of using a generalized vocabulary, as opposed to one which is OpenType-specific. However, for the particular case of EB Garamond, would the CSS3 Fonts terminology allow all complex combinations, or would one have to resort to the lower-level font-feature-settings property?

In any case, if advanced typographic features are implemented in LibreOffice soon-ish, then a much bigger portion of my working life will be spent in LibO writing in EB Garamond! ;-)

carbeck commented 10 years ago

I've been hoping for Open/Libre Office to implement OpenType support for years now … I hope it's finally going to happen. People's comments in the bug report seem quite optimistic that it can be done. Graphite is awesome, but it's by far not the industry standard.