[XeTeX] local forms (was: showhyphens and fontspec)

[Ralf Stubner]

Pablo Rodríguez <oinos at web.de> writes:

> BTW, would it be possible to create an option in fontspec called
> NoLocalForms? I have just realized that the CM Unicode fonts
> (http://cm-unicode.sourceforge.net/) use the locl to switch from the
> standard Greek vowels to the mathematical Greek glyphs. And writing in
> Greek, mixing both looks weird.

\newfontfeature{NoLocalForms}{-locl}

However, it would be better if you reported this as a (severe) bug to
the font author. This is clear missuse of the 'locl' feature. At least
if it is defined for any script but 'math'. Is it tied to any script/
language tag?

cheerio
ralf