Here is a font that I have made today.
I refer to a post by me in a thread in the Unicode mailing list.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0018.html
This font is a maquette to try out the idea.
I have encoded the special character at U+EA60 (it is Alt 60000 in case that helps anyone) with a visible glyph.
The idea is to typeset some text and then when one wants a word in italics to include a U+EA60 character after each letter of the character.
Here is the OpenType code that I used.
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script latn {
# Latin
feature StandardLigatures1;
}
feature StandardLigatures1 liga {
# Standard Ligatures
lookup Ligature1;
}
lookup Ligature1 {
# Referenced by feature "StandardLigatures1"
sub A italic -> A_italic;
sub B italic -> B_italic;
sub C italic -> C_italic;
sub D italic -> D_italic;
sub E italic -> E_italic;
sub F italic -> F_italic;
sub G italic -> G_italic;
sub H italic -> H_italic;
sub I italic -> I_italic;
sub J italic -> J_italic;
sub K italic -> K_italic;
sub L italic -> L_italic;
sub M italic -> M_italic;
sub N italic -> N_italic;
sub O italic -> O_italic;
sub P italic -> P_italic;
sub Q italic -> Q_italic;
sub R italic -> R_italic;
sub S italic -> S_italic;
sub T italic -> T_italic;
sub U italic -> U_italic;
sub V italic -> V_italic;
sub W italic -> W_italic;
sub X italic -> X_italic;
sub Y italic -> Y_italic;
sub Z italic -> Z_italic;
sub Eacute italic -> Eacute_italic;
sub a italic -> a_italic;
sub b italic -> b_italic;
sub c italic -> c_italic;
sub d italic -> d_italic;
sub e italic -> e_italic;
sub f italic -> f_italic;
sub g italic -> g_italic;
sub h italic -> h_italic;
sub i italic -> i_italic;
sub j italic -> j_italic;
sub k italic -> k_italic;
sub l italic -> l_italic;
sub m italic -> m_italic;
sub n italic -> n_italic;
sub o italic -> o_italic;
sub p italic -> p_italic;
sub q italic -> q_italic;
sub r italic -> r_italic;
sub s italic -> s_italic;
sub t italic -> t_italic;
sub u italic -> u_italic;
sub v italic -> v_italic;
sub w italic -> w_italic;
sub x italic -> x_italic;
sub y italic -> y_italic;
sub z italic -> z_italic;
sub eacute italic -> eacute_italic;
}
It is an apricot tree.
Ah, the U+EA60 characters each show as a space. I hoped that they would each show as either a black rectangle or a black square with EA60 in them.
So here is a png graphic of without liga on and with liga on.
William Overington
Thursday 10 January 2019