Opentype Question

[Neil]

Hi,
I hope this is in the correct place and that someone can point me in the right direction.
I have designed a font that uses contextual alternate glyphs.
Eg sub space f' by f_init;
However, in InDesign, when an f begins a new line even though the space ends the previous line, the alternate glyph is not used.
What unseen character begins a new line in InDesign?... so that I can add it to the scripting?
Also what is nbspace and .null...do they have something to do with the problem I am having with the contextual alternatives?

Many thanks
Neil

[Neil]

Just to clarify,
its not limited to f beginning a line, its true for all letters , i just used f for the purposes of continuing the example.
neil

[Alex Petrov (FontLab)]

'.null' is never used in texts, 'nbspace' is the synonim to space but it cannot occur at the end of line. Paragraph usually ends with Unicode 0x000A and 0x000D.
Perhaps you need to use 'init' and 'fina' features?

[Neil]

Hi Alex,
thanks for the reply.
init and fina would have been my first choice but as far as i know InDesign does not have capability for these.
It is a strange problem. Here is an example continuing with the f.

To be fulfilled.

In the above example the first f would change according to my rule, but if 'fulfilled' is split off and begins the next line, even though it is still in the same sentance and the sapce is still there the f does not change.
Quite odd.
I have attached an example of my font.

[Eigi]

Hello,

try something like this:

Code:

ignore sub @letter f';
sub f by f_init;

Where @letter is a class with all glyphs which may occur in words (everything except punctuation, numbers...)

Regards
Eigi

[Neil]

Hi
I was struggling to see how this would work, but its just clicked!!
I am a beginner.
Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Neil

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