Re: Conlang Unicode Font (was Re: Kamakawi Unicode Font Question)

On Mar 7, 2008, at 5:36 AM, Tristan McLeay wrote:
>
> The insuperable problem is that unfortunately OpenType, the main
> modern
> font format, doesn't support all its features everywhere. Automatic
> ligatures apparently don't happen if the unligated characters are in
> the PUA. Another problem is that Latin handwriting fonts can't
> use context-sensitive glyphs the way Arabic fonts do (for instance, my
> cursive p and b are open when a letter follows, but closed when they
> don't --- you can't tell an OpenType font to automatically do that).
How is it that such a font can produce ligatures when e.g. <f> is
followed by <i> or <fl>, but not vary the look of <p> and <b>
depending on what follows?

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