Some issues regarding my font
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:18 pm
I am intending to make a cursive, vertical, LTR conscript font. I should note that all of my glyphs are set to the Private Use area (E000 and beyond).
I've made sure that contextual alternates work for the cursive part, although I've noticed that, while it works on FontCreator's WOFF tester and my laptop on the website I've uploaded the font to, it doesn't want to work when using the program's font tester or on Microsoft Word (even when I have contextual alternates turned on in the settings). Additionally the website doesn't display the font correctly when I'm on my Iphone.
With regards to the phone thing, when I substitutions under normal contextual alternates, it is very selective in what letters will have their cursive forms, like not turning the leftmost letter from it's isolate form to final form:
But when it have I under required contextual alternates, it doesn't want to work at all on my phone:
Another thing that's problematic is line spacing. It is a vertical writing system, which I know has poor support, so I've been using HTML code to rotate the script. I've been noticing that when I put the letters within table cells they tend to cut into the cell beside them. I'm not sure if it's a problem with HTML/the website or the way I've set up the Typo Ascender/Descender and WinAscent/Descent metrics.
Lastly, and it's not really an issue but I was looking up this list of opentype features and I noticed there was a feature called "vertical alternates", and I'm wondering how/if I could get that to work and how the feature might be triggered.
Thank you in advance.
I've made sure that contextual alternates work for the cursive part, although I've noticed that, while it works on FontCreator's WOFF tester and my laptop on the website I've uploaded the font to, it doesn't want to work when using the program's font tester or on Microsoft Word (even when I have contextual alternates turned on in the settings). Additionally the website doesn't display the font correctly when I'm on my Iphone.
With regards to the phone thing, when I substitutions under normal contextual alternates, it is very selective in what letters will have their cursive forms, like not turning the leftmost letter from it's isolate form to final form:
But when it have I under required contextual alternates, it doesn't want to work at all on my phone:
Another thing that's problematic is line spacing. It is a vertical writing system, which I know has poor support, so I've been using HTML code to rotate the script. I've been noticing that when I put the letters within table cells they tend to cut into the cell beside them. I'm not sure if it's a problem with HTML/the website or the way I've set up the Typo Ascender/Descender and WinAscent/Descent metrics.
Lastly, and it's not really an issue but I was looking up this list of opentype features and I noticed there was a feature called "vertical alternates", and I'm wondering how/if I could get that to work and how the feature might be triggered.
Thank you in advance.