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Paul1023
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April 26, 2016
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Automatic long s substitution?

  • April 26, 2016
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I'm working on a document in InDesign and have been using Garamond Premier Pro. Is there a way to automatically substitute ſ (the long s) where appropriate (beginning and middle of words only; never at the end; but not before certain letters such as b or k) through some sort of Opentype feature? I've been looking all over the Glyphs menu in InDesign and while it allows manual substitution, it's a long document and manually substituting it breaks the hyphenation. Can glyph substitution rules be used in InDesign or do I need to edit the font somehow?

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MiguelSousa
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MiguelSousaCommunity Manager
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April 26, 2016

Paul,

InDesign's GREP styles is the perfect solution for your problem, but unfortunately the OpenType Features pane in the Character Style Options window dialog does not provide access to the Historical Forms OpenType feature, which is where the s→ſ substitution is encoded in the Garamond Premier Pro fonts.

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