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GSUB is a stub, so the stylistic alternates are unreachable #4

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@zackkatz

The family ships five alternate letterforms that nothing can select.

a_alt, g_alt, g_alt2, t_alt, u_alt are present and drawn, but the GSUB table is empty: ScriptList is null, FeatureList is null, and there are zero lookups. No feature exposes them, so no application can reach them.

GSUB: ScriptList=None FeatureList=None lookups=0
GPOS: scripts=[DFLT] features=[kern] lookups=1

Kerning works (it lives in GPOS), so this is specific to substitution.

Wiring a salt/ss01 feature would make the alternates selectable and give the family a real stylistic set. The same table is what a liga feature would need if the fi/fl ligatures are ever added (#2).

Worth checking first whether the alternates are drawn in every weight — an earlier survey found them empty in some faces, which would need fixing before exposing them.

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