No, the glyph names are mainly for your convenience, but are also used with several features within FontCreator, like automatically generating OpenType layout features. That is all described in the user manual.
I just don’t know what the hell I’m doing, don’t have any real understanding of this at all. I’ve been trying to get things to look like you have them in your previous explanations here, but I clearly must not understand this. It looks like I think that it should (as per your instructions), but it certainly doesn’t substitute my “a” for “a.ender” when it’s supposed to.
Could I trouble you to look at my font (attached here) and see what I did wrong? I would, of course, prefer to actually understand how to do it correctly myself, and know where I made the error, than for you to just fix it for me – if it’s not too much trouble.
You are close ![]()
I do not see the substitution lookup yet, so do add it.
Also the chaining context lookup only has one rule, so you need to add the other one.