Need help with calt features

Scripting
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Hello,

45
As you can see the combination “nxxn” works fine but in “oxxn” the second “x” is wrong.
Funnily, with “s” everything works as it should, even though I don’t think I did anything different there.
Any ideas what I might have done wrong?
Thanks!

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Please share the OpenType code in your calt feature

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Here it is!


# BEGIN POSITIONAL ALTERNATES
lookup IsolForms {
	ignore sub @isolDef' @AllLetters, @AllLetters @isolDef';
	sub @isolDef' by @isolSub;
} IsolForms;

lookup InitForms {
	ignore sub @AllLetters @initDef';
	sub @initDef' by @initSub;
} InitForms;

lookup InitForms2 {
	sub @Uppercase @initDef' by @initSub;
} InitForms2;

lookup InitForms3 {
	sub @DisconnectedLowercase @initDef' by @initSub;
} InitForms3;

lookup FinaForms {
	ignore sub @finaDef' @AllLetters;
	sub @finaDef' by @finaSub;
} FinaForms;

lookup Finaforms2 {
	sub @finaDef' @Uppercase by @finaSub;
} Finaforms2;
# END POSITIONAL ALTERNATES
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This appears to be code for word-initial, word-final and isolated glyphs, but isn’t your problem with word-internal glyphs?

5

What do you mean by word-internal glyphs?

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Oh, wait. I think I understand now.

When you’re going through the sequence n x x n, first the renderer deals with a sequence n x, subsituting, say, x.connectedonleft for x. Then the next sequence is x.connectedonleft x, and you don’t want a substitution there, and you’re (correctly) not getting one.

In the sequence o x x o, I suppose o is not in @DisconnectedLowercase, so you get no substitution of x. So the next sequence dealt with is x x, and if x is in @DisconnectedLowercase you’ll get the substitution of the second x–which you don’t want.

Am I understanding the situation correctly now?

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What I don’t understand is also why this doesn’t happen with “s”.
“o” is in @DisconnectedLowercase.
Let me show you what else is there.

@DisconnectedLowercase:
b eng eth f f_j.liga g gbreve gcommaaccent gdotaccent j ldot o oacute ocircumflex odieresis ograve ohungarumlaut omacron oslash otilde p q s sacute scaron scedilla scommaaccent s.init s.isol sacute.init scaron.init scommaaccent.init v w wacute wcircumflex wdieresis wgrave x y yacute ydieresis ycircumflex ygrave z zacute zcaron zdotaccent z.init zacute.init zcaron.init zdotaccent.init

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Forgot to mention… when typing axxo this doesn’t happen and I get the right x (the not connected one).

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So these glyphs are in @DisconnectedLowercase: o x

And these are not: a n

In the sequence o x x o the renderer will first encounter the pair o x and, applying your InitForms3 lookup, will make it (say) o x.alt.

Then the renderer moves along not to x x but to x.alt x. Since x.alt is not in @DisconnectedLowercase, InitForms3 will not make a substitution for the second x. But all the other lookups are also consulted for x.alt x. So a lot depends on what is in @AllLetters, @isolDef and @initDef. For example, if x.alt is not in @AllLetters and x is in @initDef, a substitution will be made for the second x by your InitForms lookup.

More abstractly, remember that given a sequence

1 2 3 4

The renderer will (a) deal with 1 2, sorting through the lookups till it finds one that applies, then will (b) deal with 2 3 as modified by (a), then deal with 3 4 as modified by (a) and (b), and so on.

I can’t be sure how these considerations apply without seeing all your classes, but it seems to me that everything depends on what’s in those classes.

10

Thanks a ton for your time and explanation! You are absolutely right.
I just had to add x.init to @DisconnectedLowercase. It’s solved now :slight_smile:

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That’s great! Very glad to help. (I actually love writing feature code, believe it or not.)

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That’s great! I would love to be more fluent in writing code, but then I make these stupid mistakes :smiley: