


III. Adding Glyph Effects
Much of the sophisticated linguistic and layout capability of
QuickDraw GX will happen automatically, fuelled by parameters which
are implemented in a font's metamorphosis table. Font features are
typographic and layout capabilities that can be selected or
deselected by an application, and which control many aspects of glyph
selection, ordering, and positioning.
Font features include fundamental controls, such as whether or not
contextual forms (for example, ligatures) occur by default or at all,
and details of appearance such as whether or not alternate initial
forms (for example, swash forms) of glyphs should occur at the
beginnings of words or lines.
- This chapter discusses the 'feat', 'mort'
and 'name' tables, which are the primary carriers of
glyph effects in GX fonts.


Arleigh Movitz (movitz@apple.com)
Dave Opstad (opstad@apple.com)
Kristian Walsh (walsh.k@euro.apple.com)