Hi,
I’m designing a typeface with cursive attachment (curs feature) to connect letters using entry and exit anchors. The feature works perfectly in FontGoggles, the connections between glyphs appear exactly as intended.
However, when I open the font in any Adobe application (InDesign, Illustrator), the curs feature seems to be completely ignored. The letters appear disconnected, as if the anchors don’t exist.
Here’s my setup:
- Multi-master font with 2 masters (Regular, Script)
- entry and exit anchors placed on letters and ligatures in the Script master
- curs feature manually written and injected into the OTF via fontTools (since Glyphs wasn’t compiling it automatically)
- The feature is confirmed present in the compiled OTF via ttx, I can see the CursivePos lookup in the GPOS table
- liga and dlig features work correctly in InDesign
- curs works correctly in FontGoggles
My questions:
- Is curs simply not supported in Adobe applications? I’ve read conflicting information about this.
- If it’s not supported, what is the recommended approach to achieve cursive connections that work in InDesign, should the connection strokes be drawn directly into the ligature glyphs instead? How can I connect two ligatures together ?
- Is there any workaround or alternative feature (calt, kern, mark/mkmk) that would achieve a similar visual result in Adobe apps?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!