# Ordinals **URL:** \ **Category:** FontCreator - Discussion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2019, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/ordinals/6296 "2019-01-05T03:50:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Psymon](https://forum.high-logic.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Psymon](https://forum.high-logic.com/u/Psymon)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/ordinals/6296/1 "2019-01-05T03:50:38Z")
Every time I think I’m finally nearly finished with my fonts, I come across yet another thing I’d like to add in – this time ordinals! I came across this thread rather by accident, while searching for something else here… > [@Chaining Context: Ligatures following numerals](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/chaining-context-ligatures-following-numerals/5733/1): > > SHOCK … HORROR open_mouthunamused Ordinals and Fractions don’t play well together in many other fonts including professionally designed expensive fonts which really ought to know better !! Many of them turn all lower case text to superscript inappropriately. I am still stumbling about in the dark with Chaining Contexts, the ones that I have so far have been experiments trying to copy what other people have done, they have worked more by trial and error than planning. Am I right in … I never realized that ordinals were something done in the font itself, I thought it was something done at the other end, by the word processing software (or whatever). Well, la-di-da, now I’d love to add that feature into my fonts, too! But how? I’ve searched the forums here and the closest thing that I could find to a tutorial (apart from the above thread) was this one from Bhikkhu… > [@OpenType Ordinals Feature - Best Practice](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/opentype-ordinals-feature-best-practice/3567/1): > > On testing the OpenType ordinals feature of SourceSansPro in PagePlus, I found that every lowercase letter was superscripted, and not only those that followed a figure. I sent an email to Paul Hunt, who maintains the SourceSansPro font to ask why. This was the reply that I received: The superscript letters are just that, superscript letters. These are multipurpose and not particularly associated only with ordinals. Even if they were intended as ordinals, it is too much work for the font deve… I gather what I want to do is create a “chained context lookup,” but I haven’t got the first clue how to go about that – and searching for that on here, I find very little info about that, too. I’ve already done lookups for ligatures, lining figures, and smallcaps – is this sort of lookup difficult to do? Is there a tutorial on doing lookups for ordinals somewhere on here (that I couldn’t seem to find)? Or would some kind soul like to teach me how to do this? 🙂