[HarfBuzz] 'init' OT feature in Hebrew

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 11/12/10 14:30, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 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

Right.  That was just pointed out to me on the OpenType list too.  I haven't
seen this before.  I'll code something up to apply these features.

behdad

> Regards,
>  Khaled