Adding OpenType Features in FontLab VI, Part 5: Composite Marks

The previous post covered alternates, especially contextual alternates. It’s a long one, and packed with info goodies. This post chronicles my journey into the mark and mkmk features. These features are for piecing together composite glyphs from base glyphs and diacritic marks using anchors. Spoiler: I didn’t get this to work properly, then realized I didn’t need it anyway. But here’s what I learned, in [...]