Fonts don't get that clever.
Probably not. Do they have any option to set a flag like "the last character was a vowel" which can then be tested when the next character is painted? If so there is a chance of detecting this efficiently without having to be too clever.
This couldn't be done in a font, but could be done in a rendering engine like Uniscribe, which keeps track of characters. Font lookups work entirely in glyph space, so their only connection to characters is via the font cmap table.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The sight of James Cox from the BBC's World at One,
interviewing Robin Oakley, CNN's man in Europe,
surrounded by a scrum of furiously scribbling print
journalists will stand for some time as the apogee of
media cannibalism.
- Emma Brockes, at the EU summit
