Is this a bug?

[Thierry Bouche]

» And I've got a set of vfs most of which have oldstyle numerals in them.
» The one exception is the small caps founts: they have `missing glyph'
» blocks instead of oldstyle numerals.
» 
» Given that all the other founts have oldstyle numerals, this seems a bit
» odd.  Can anyone explain why this is?

probably because fontinst uses straightforwardly xxxc8r where the OsF
are encoded as if they were LiF. This is a bug. Small caps of expert
founts should be done with the 8r+8x founts, using kerning from c(j)8r