Hello everyone.
I have a question and was wondering if someone could give me some highlights on how I can achieve this.
I created a manuscript font that looks like this at the moment:
Now someone asked me if I could create the round letters like “a”, “c”, “d” etc with a little leg on the begining like this image:
I was wondering if there is a easy way to do this with like a component that I could attach to my letters when I need it? Because I want this to be an option that people can activate, rather than be on the default characters. I have lots of contextual alternates already and would like to know if there’s a different way to achieve this with a another method (because I need to add the little leg to all my alternates and accented characters).
You can add a feature (e.g. a stylistic set) that adds some thing before the glyphs. But that doesn’t work well in Indesign (you need to activate the World-Ready Composer).
That you look something like this:
ignore sub @allLetters [a c d o …];
sub a by instroke a;
sub c by instroke c;
sub d by instroke d;
sub o by instroke o;
…
(I didn’t test this, so it might need some tweaking)
If you want to keep the glyph-based approach, try Paste Special (hold down Opt when you open the Edit menu or pressure Cmd-V shortcut) with those glyphs selected.
thanks for the help! that kind of works.
But how can I only add the element when the character is the first one in a word? if that character is between others (like the word “mão”), I don’t want to add that element on the “a” and “o”.
Sorry, I forgot that ignore rules only work with contextual patterns. You need to mark the “input sequence” of glyph by writing a ' (single quote) after them, like so:
ignore sub @AllLetters [a c d o …]';
sub a' by instroke a;
...
Looking at the code, I am not sure what is supposed to be ignored by the ignore statement. You want to insert a connector between glyphs, I suppose, so we do not need to ignore, but only go for the right context:
sub @AllLetters @Lowercase' by lowercase-lig @Lowercase;
No ignore line.
In InDesign, you will need the World-Ready Composer.
AllLetters and Lowercase are automated classes, perhaps you want to substitute with custom classes.
Thanks for your reply but I wanted to add a connector on the round letters on the left side, and only when they were in the beginning of a word.
I already managed to do it with Florian’s solution
ignore sub @AllLetters [a c d o …]';
sub a' by instroke a;
...
