Super novice user here. I have one glyph that has a .fina form. works perfectly in glyphs, however does not auto populate outside of glyphs in OTF apps. Any ideas? thanks!
The “fina” feature is only supposed to work with arabic (and a few other scripts). Glyphs is not applying this rule correctly. What are you trying and where did you test this? Have a look at this: Features, part 4: positional alternates | Glyphs
yes ive taken a look at those articles. This is for me script font. it auto-populates in glyphs but not in other programs. I made a previous script font where all the .fina characters work without isssue. And I’ve followed the same steps.
As I said, the fina feature is only supported for Arabic languages. You need the contextual solution explained in the tutorial.
There is a feature buried in InDesign that activates positionals for other scripts. But that’s only InDesign. So the calt features is the way to go.
If you’ve built your calt and it still doesn’t work, please paste your calt code here.
There’s a mekkablue script that builds calt for positional alternates.