# How to change symbol in the word-initial position?

**URL:** <https://forum.high-logic.com/t/how-to-change-symbol-in-the-word-initial-position/13396>\
**Category:** FontCreator - Discussion\
**Created:** [November 8, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/how-to-change-symbol-in-the-word-initial-position/13396 "2025-11-08T17:43:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fyteria](https://forum.high-logic.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@Fyteria](https://forum.high-logic.com/u/Fyteria)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/how-to-change-symbol-in-the-word-initial-position/13396/1 "2025-11-08T17:43:39Z")

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I want a specific symbol to change its shape when it’s at the start of a word. I know that that can be made with chained context substitution, but it’s not working for some reason.

 ![image](https://forum.high-logic.com/uploads/default/original/2X/7/753d22243b1b433200dab439080528eba0375fd1.png)

 ![image](https://forum.high-logic.com/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1f2462397b9a89ac3753a1ff3e4aa39901a12dcc.png)

![image](https://forum.high-logic.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/079e9fd46afec5ad6befd2d6f8527417af133ede.png)

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**Author:** ![ErwinDenissen](https://forum.high-logic.com/user_avatar/forum.high-logic.com/erwindenissen/32/9430_2.png) [@ErwinDenissen](https://forum.high-logic.com/u/ErwinDenissen)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/how-to-change-symbol-in-the-word-initial-position/13396/2 "2025-11-14T11:11:25Z")

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Did you connect the chaining context lookup to a feature which belongs to the correct Script?

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**Author:** ![Fyteria](https://forum.high-logic.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@Fyteria](https://forum.high-logic.com/u/Fyteria)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/how-to-change-symbol-in-the-word-initial-position/13396/3 "2025-11-15T13:10:31Z")

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Yes, and it’s working now. I forgot to update this thread. However, I have another issue. Letters in this script have below-base forms, as well as “host” forms under which the blwf forms attach, but I have no idea how to prevent the host base from turning into a diacritic when I enable blwf.