thank you David for the caution note. I am a native German speaker, so I am aware of German hyphenation rules: they are indeed quite different from English. <br><br>as ever,<br>Rembrandt<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 19:32, David Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hospes.primus@verizon.net">hospes.primus@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One caution for those who want to try altering the features. I recall<br>
reading that in German rules for syllabification (and therefore<br>
hyphenation and linebreaking) have some niceties that English speakers<br>
may not know about. (Apologies: I can make my way through a scholarly<br>
article in German but cannot say that I truly know the language.) If<br>
you move the ch and ck digraphs into the default features for Latin<br>
script, you may get some unexpected results. The order in which<br>
features are processed in an OT font can be be important, and there can<br>
be interactions with software that does linebreaking (when, e.g., it no<br>
longer limits the digraphs to use in German and may apply them<br>
inappropriately). I haven't tried this, just a heads-up.<br>
<br>
David<br>
<br>
Peter Baker wrote:<br>
<div class="im">> Rembrandt Wolpert wrote:<br>
<br>
> know: I don't think so. It seems to me a pretty simple fix to use<br>
> FontForge to edit the font (moving the t_h ligature and any others<br>
> you're sure you want to use all the time from dlig to liga).<br>
<br>
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