[HarfBuzz] 'init' OT feature in Hebrew

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 11/12/10 13:17, Khaled Hosny wrote:

> Recently I've been told some Adobe apps (InDesign I think) support init,
> medi and fina for Latin script (and I geuss the support is generic so
> Hebrew might work too) and some font designers seem to be leveraging
> such support. I was surprised too, but given how it is impractical
> (impossible?) to write contextual substitution against word boundaries
> (testing against space is not enough, it seems) I can see why this it
> would be desirable.

It would be a major abuse to do that.  A start-of-word feature is as useful in
Arabic as it is in any other script.  Recycling 'init' for that is just plain
wrong.  I'll invetigate.

behdad