Tabular Space and Punctuation best practice

I have a bit of a conundrum here.
I’ve included tabular space and tabular punctuation for use in the layout of tables but if the user turns the tabular setting in a regular text paragraph the spacing and punctuation gets all big and weird.
Do you include tabular space and punctuation in your fonts?
Did you figure out a work around?
Am I worried about something that’s not a real problem?

Tabular punctuation as a concept does not exist. Usually the period and comma have the same width in all cases, but unless it is a monospace font they should not be the same width as the numerals. Your punctuation should be spaced to work well with text, and they will work well within tables.

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Why not turn it on when it’s next to tabular figures or other tabular punctuation only? Something like:

sub @Figures by @TabularFigures;
sub @TabularFigures @LiningPunctuation’ by @TabularPunctuation;
sub @LiningPunctuation@TabularFigures by @TabularPunctuation;
sub @TabularPunctuation @LiningPunctuation’ by @TabularPunctuation;

Thanks Alexs, that sounds interesting
I never actually written my own OT features
In which feature category would it go?

In tnum, so it works auto with Tabular Figures button.
Everything starting with @ is a class, so make sure to create those classes and put needed glyphs in there.

You may also think through more scenarios when punctuation should be tabular and when not :slight_smile:

interesting, I’ll give it a go
thanks