I am having trouble with Fontlab5 saving my .fea file. When I first installed it( and without changing anything I think) it was generating .fea files when I generated the font and the formatting was perfect. I am assuming they are generated because they have the same file name as the generated font.  I have tried saving the file through the opentype panel but the formatting is non-existant.

Any ideas?

I am unsure what formatting you expect. The Opentype features are just a plain text list of one feature after another. 

Hi Ralf,

The auto generated file was readable it was in exactly the same format as it is in Fontlab. eg a new line when a new line was used. The file that was created when I actually saved the features had no formatting at all. My question is how do i get it to make the auto file. I know I didnt save the good fea file but i have no idea of what setting to do it.

I hope that made sense. As examples see the files below. 1 is the good file type auto generated. 2 is the manually saved file. What do I do to make the auto file?

I hope this made sense.

1.txt

2.txt

The only difference I see is an additional line break. Is that what you mean?

I have included an image to better explain.

I just tried opening the files in Word and it seems they are Right justified but  at least usable... a simple case of select all and Left justify works a treat. I had been opening them in Notepad.
Id still to find out how the auto generated files were created though...which are left justified already.

I guess that’s just a problem of line break encoding. Both files you attached work correctly for me in a proper editor. 

Hi Ralf,

I suppose really the question is :- to your knowledge does Fontlab 5 produce .fea files when a font is generated and how does it do it.

To my knowledge, it does produce them because I know I didnt save those files manually but I have absolutely no idea how to do it.

I am not aware of such an option. 

The Fontlab support team reckon that something went wrong while the font was generating and it left temp files, ie the fea file.