[HarfBuzz] 'init' OT feature in Hebrew

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:06:36PM +0200, Maxim Iorsh wrote:
> Hi Behdad,
> 
> Please find attached the font. The letter "lamed" (afii57676) has a long swash
> ascender, which causes the word beginning with it to look connected to the
> preceding word. By using 'init' I'm trying to prevent it and to replace
> afii57676 with lamed.initial (U+e000), which has a more modest ascender.
> 
> Regarding the principle of 'init', I couldn't see any feature which would
> better fit for this purpose. The description at the Adobe site doesn't state
> this is Arabic-specific or like. Do you know any feature which could be used
> instead?

I just checked the MS description page, it even gives cursive Latin as
a use case:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_fj.htm#init

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer