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larsenwork / monoid

Customisable coding font with alternates, ligatures and contextual positioning. Crazy crisp at 12px/9pt. http://larsenwork.com/monoid/
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Getting opentype features working reliably #60

Closed larsenwork closed 9 years ago

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

I'm haven't been able to get the #56 working and ligatures are still buggy (some work and some doesn't) #25

I'm trying to figure out if this is a fontforge issue and if so then maybe using afdko as suggested here: http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1029/class-based-contextual-positioning-how-to

pauldhunt commented 9 years ago

do let me know if you need help setting things up for FDK. are you mainly using fontforge for development?

chase commented 9 years ago

@pauldhunt We are using FontForge primarily, yes.

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

@pauldhunt thanks for offer to help - I'm currently trying to see if I can get it working without FDK (i.e. using FontForge only) as that would add another step to the build process.

What we're currently doing is 1) Push a source change (sfdir) 2) CircleCi runs the FontForge building scripts generating the 3200 combination options

So makeOTF would have to run through 3200 font files which I'd imagine would take some time

chase commented 9 years ago

makeOTF shouldn't be too slow, considering we also run zip on 3200*5 files :+1:

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

Looks like it was maybe down to a small error in the .fea file and it's now working. Keeping fingers crossed and this open for a while.

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

Seems to work so closing this for now. @pauldhunt thanks for the offer to help - I might take you up on that another time :smile: