For my font project (see www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond) i have been
playing around with some opentype features. It seems, that contextual
features involving the character "space" don’t work as expected. I
wanted to implement a feature for latin texts that replaces "u" at the
beginning of a word by a letter that looks like "v". The rule looks like
this:
sub [ space @PUNCT ] u.LAT' by u.LATinit;
where @PUNCT is a list of puntuation characters like opening quotes etc.
In XeTeX, the replacement does work after any of the defined punctuation
marks, but not after space. Another interesting thing that I observed is
that for some languages but not all you have to specify the language
separately with \addfontfeature to make local settings apply (eg.
german, romanian, latin, but not serbian)
Minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{latin}
\defaultfontfeatures{RawFeature={+calt}}
\setmainfont{EBGaramond}
\begin{document}
\addfontfeature{Language=Latin}
Universalis universalis—universalis „universalis“.
\end{document}
Best regards
Georg
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