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A ligature is used as a replacement of two or more glyphs. What you describe related to cursive attachment, but that is not meant for Latin based characters. However, it might be worth a try to upload an illustration or screenshot of what you try to achieve. Or upload a reduced version of your font,...

That is good to know!

@abackhaus did it solve the problem for you as well?

Here it obviously works just fine, but we have made some adjustments which should solve the problem.

https://www.high-logic.com/tmp/maintype ... 14-x64.exe

Let us know your results.

You should combine the two lookups into one.

Easiest is to open Ligature1 in the code editor (in fea mode) and then copy the "sub"lines.

Next open the other lookup in the code editor and paste the lines, and recompile.

That should merge the two, so then you can delete Ligature1.

I see two lookups with ligatures, so I suspect the first one has applied the rule to substitute at three -> at_three.liga Then your second lookup no longer has a match for at three h . I assume both lookups have mostly identical substitutions, so most likely deleting lookup Ligature1 solves the prob...

We have just released another update, so this issue is solved.

Yes, this is certainly an issue and it will be fixed with the next upcoming update. Thank you for reporting it.

There is one way to let MainType automatically install fonts from a (shared) folder. Just check the appropriate boxes (“Automatically install all fonts...” and “Smart install”) when adding a Font folder to MainType. That ensures all team members have this same set of fonts installed. If one person u...

This tutorial covers Contextual Alternates which might give some more ideas.

https://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/ ... e-features

This is currently something you have to deal with, as the algorithm is now as good as it can be without spending more research.

Maybe you accidentally changed glyph display mode to color?

To fix that, select View from the main menu and then set Glyph Display Mode to Auto.

What also might help is to reset zoom. Also from the View menu, but now select Zoom Reset.

This update should solve the issue:
https://www.high-logic.com/tmp/fontcrea ... 73-x64.exe

Please let us know your results.

Are those unused glyphs?

Please send us the font project so we can look into it.

In Affinity Publisher do one of the following: From the context toolbar, select or enter a value via the Paragraph Leading setting. From the Paragraph panel, select or enter a value via the Paragraph Leading setting in the Spacing section. Do read this part of the help which explains how to change l...