I'm designing a cursive, swashed typeface, and will try to implement it as OpenType font.
We'll see how it goes; it'll require mad ligature substitution, as well as contextual subtitutions.
I'll be scanning in sheets to get most of the face properties documented, and will be writing a up design doc for it.
"live view" with WOFF: https://pomax.github.com/Cursive-swash-typeface
- Pomax