Roman numeral ligatures with final j

[TheKnightWho]

Hi - could I please request hlig variants for the lowercase Roman numeral ligatures that end with a final j? My preference would be for these to be alternatives to the current ligatures rather than a whole new set involving the use of the character 'j', for the sake of text search etc.

[psb1558]

How useful would these be, in fact? There are only a few roman number ligatures. If you're thinking of using them in editions, they won't get you very far.

It would be preferable, I think, to have a variant of i that would show as j in final position.

[psb1558]

Here's what I have in mind (and I think I've managed to make it work). Apply cv18[4] to a roman number and, if it ends with i, the i will show as j. But it's actually a glyph i.jform which will be searchable as i. I was thinking that it should be applied only to roman numbers (not to words like ingenii), but it occurred to me that in MSS when a word ends in -ii, the final i often has the form of a j. So I may relabel this feature to something like "j-shaped i in final position."

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[psb1558]

Surveying roman numbers in various MSS, I've settled on a couple of features, available in the next version (1.045). cv18[4] ("ii to ij at word-end") will change i to j (or, more exactly, a j-shaped i) at the end of a word (or roman number), but only when preceded by i. cv18[5] ("i to j at word-end") will change i to j at the end of a word no matter what.

A j produced by this feature will always be searchable as i.

[TheKnightWho]

That's really great - thank you!