diff --git a/build.bat b/build.bat
index 320343f..ff18de5 100644
--- a/build.bat
+++ b/build.bat
@@ -3,19 +3,25 @@ setlocal
 
 if not exist .\build\* mkdir build
 
+set flags=
+if "%1"=="--italics-hack-off" (
+	set flags=%1
+	shift
+)
 rem only build passed in font
-if not "%1%"=="" (
-	call :build_font %1
+if not "%1"=="" (
+	call :build_font %1 %flags%
 	exit /b
 )
 
 rem build all fonts
-for /d %%d in (.\ligature\*) do call :build_font %%~nd
+for /d %%d in (.\ligature\*) do call :build_font %%~nd %flags%
 exit /b
 
 
 :build_font
 set lig=%1
+set flags=%2
 set otf=%lig:Lig-=-%
 
 if not exist .\original\%otf%.otf exit /b
@@ -23,6 +29,6 @@ if not exist .\ligature\%lig%\glyphs\* exit /b
 
 @echo Building %lig%
 ttx -f .\original\%otf%.otf
-node index.js %otf%
-for %%f in (.\build\%lig%*.ttx) do ttx -f %%f
+node index.js %otf% %flags%
+ttx -f .\build\%lig%.ttx
 exit /b
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index a27374d..3ccf9d0 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ mkdir -p build
 
 build_font() {
     lig="$1"
+    flags="$2"
     otf=${lig/Lig-/-}
 
     if [ ! -e "./original/$otf.otf" ]
@@ -17,20 +18,24 @@ build_font() {
 
     echo Building $1
     ttx -f "./original/$otf.otf"
-    node index.js $otf
+    node index.js $otf $flags
 
-    for f in ./build/$1*.ttx ; do
-        ttx -f $f
-    done
+    ttx -f ./build/$1.ttx
 }
 
+flags=
+if [ "$1" = "--italics-hack-off" ]
+then
+    flags=$1
+    shift
+fi
 if [ -n "$1" ]
 then
     # build specified font
-    build_font $1
+    build_font $1 $flags
 else
     # build all available fonts
     for d in ./ligature/*/ ; do
-        build_font $(basename $d)
+        build_font $(basename $d) $flags
     done
 fi
diff --git a/gsub.js b/gsub.js
index 3e8f6ef..7fe456e 100644
--- a/gsub.js
+++ b/gsub.js
@@ -12,7 +12,33 @@ let lookupIndex = 0;
 let chainIndex = 0;
 const substLookupMap = {};
 
-const buildGsubTables = (_dom, ligature) => {
+const initGsubTables = (_dom, options) => {
+  dom = _dom;
+
+  gsubDom = xpath.select('ttFont/GSUB', dom, true);
+
+  // look for 'calt' feature
+  featureListDom = xpath.select('FeatureList', gsubDom, true);
+  lookupListDom = xpath.select('LookupList', gsubDom, true);
+
+  if (options.italicsHack) {
+    // remove all features from FeatureList
+    Array.from(featureListDom.childNodes).forEach((c) => {
+      featureListDom.removeChild(c);
+    });
+
+    Array.from(xpath.select('ttFont/GSUB//FeatureIndex', dom)).forEach((c) => {
+      c.parentNode.removeChild(c);
+    });
+
+    // remove all lookups from LookupList
+    Array.from(lookupListDom.childNodes).forEach((c) =>
+      lookupListDom.removeChild(c)
+    );
+  }
+};
+
+const buildGsubTables = (_dom, ligature, options) => {
   dom = _dom;
 
   if (/_/.test(ligature.glyph) === false) {
@@ -48,7 +74,7 @@ const buildGsubTables = (_dom, ligature) => {
       true
     );
     featureRecord = createElementWithAttributes('FeatureRecord', {
-      index: featureListCount
+      index: featureListCount,
     });
     featureRecord.appendChild(
       createElementWithAttributes('FeatureTag', { value: 'calt' })
@@ -66,11 +92,10 @@ const buildGsubTables = (_dom, ligature) => {
   addFeatureToScriptList('DFLT', featureIndex);
   addFeatureToScriptList('latn', featureIndex);
 
-  lookupListDom = xpath.select('LookupList', gsubDom, true);
   lookupIndex = xpath.select('count(Lookup)', lookupListDom, true);
 
   const lookupDom = createElementWithAttributes('Lookup', {
-    index: lookupIndex++
+    index: lookupIndex++,
   });
   appendChildren(
     lookupDom,
@@ -87,7 +112,7 @@ const buildGsubTables = (_dom, ligature) => {
   featureDom.appendChild(
     createElementWithAttributes('LookupListIndex', {
       index: featureLookupCount,
-      value: lookupDom.getAttribute('index')
+      value: lookupDom.getAttribute('index'),
     })
   );
 
@@ -122,12 +147,11 @@ const finalizeGsubTables = () => {
       lookupListDom,
       false
     );
-    substLookups.forEach(substLookup => {
+    substLookups.forEach((substLookup) => {
       substLookup.setAttribute('value', newIndex);
     });
     lookup.setAttribute('index', newIndex++);
     lookupListDom.appendChild(lookup);
-    lookupListDom.appendChild(lookup);
   });
 };
 
@@ -150,20 +174,20 @@ const addFeatureToScriptList = (tag, featureIndex) => {
     defaultLangSys.appendChild(
       createElementWithAttributes('FeatureIndex', {
         index: count,
-        value: featureIndex
+        value: featureIndex,
       })
     );
   }
 };
 
-const buildBacktrackFirst = glyphs => {
+const buildBacktrackFirst = (glyphs) => {
   // backtrack = first glyph
   // input = first glphy
   // lookAhead = [1..n]
   return buildChainContext([glyphs[0]], [glyphs[0]], glyphs.slice(1));
 };
 
-const buildLookAheadLast = glyphs => {
+const buildLookAheadLast = (glyphs) => {
   // backtrack = none
   // input = first glyph
   // lookAhead = [1..n] + [n]
@@ -186,12 +210,12 @@ const buildLigatureSubst = (glyphs, lookup) => {
   );
 };
 
-const getLIGs = length => new Array(length).fill('LIG', 0, length);
+const getLIGs = (length) => new Array(length).fill('LIG', 0, length);
 
 const buildChainContext = (backtrack, input, lookAhead, substitute) => {
   const chainDom = createElementWithAttributes('ChainContextSubst', {
     index: chainIndex++,
-    Format: 3
+    Format: 3,
   });
 
   buildCoverage(chainDom, 'BacktrackCoverage', backtrack);
@@ -218,7 +242,7 @@ const buildCoverage = (chainDom, tagName, coverage) => {
     coverage.forEach((glyph, i) => {
       const coverageDom = createElementWithAttributes(tagName, {
         index: i++,
-        Format: 1
+        Format: 1,
       });
       coverageDom.appendChild(
         createElementWithAttributes('Glyph', { value: glyph })
@@ -235,7 +259,7 @@ const getSubstLookup = (input, output, lookupDom) => {
 
   if (!lookupDom) {
     lookupDom = createElementWithAttributes('Lookup', {
-      index: Object.keys(substLookupMap).length + 1
+      index: Object.keys(substLookupMap).length + 1,
     });
     lookupDom.appendChild(
       createElementWithAttributes('LookupType', { value: 1 })
@@ -251,7 +275,7 @@ const getSubstLookup = (input, output, lookupDom) => {
   if (!singleSubstDom) {
     singleSubstDom = createElementWithAttributes('SingleSubst', {
       index: 0,
-      Format: 2
+      Format: 2,
     });
     lookupDom.appendChild(singleSubstDom);
   }
@@ -272,17 +296,18 @@ const getSubstLookup = (input, output, lookupDom) => {
 
 const createElementWithAttributes = (tagName, attributes) => {
   const element = dom.createElement(tagName);
-  Object.entries(attributes).forEach(attribute => {
+  Object.entries(attributes).forEach((attribute) => {
     element.setAttribute(attribute[0], attribute[1]);
   });
   return element;
 };
 
 const appendChildren = (node, ...children) => {
-  children.forEach(child => node.appendChild(child));
+  children.forEach((child) => node.appendChild(child));
 };
 
 //const serialize = dom => new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(dom);
 
+exports.initGsubTables = initGsubTables;
 exports.buildGsubTables = buildGsubTables;
 exports.finalizeGsubTables = finalizeGsubTables;
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index fd3e051..0d3363f 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -17,8 +17,12 @@ const NodeType = {};
 NodeType.TEXT_NODE = 3;
 
 let dom;
+let italicsHack = false;
 function main() {
   fontName = process.argv[2];
+  italicsHack =
+    fontName.includes('Italic') && process.argv[3] !== '--italics-hack-off';
+
   ligFontName = fontName.split('-').join('Lig-');
 
   const srcFileName = `./original/${fontName}.ttx`;
@@ -29,12 +33,12 @@ function main() {
   const profiles = getProfiles();
 
   // process settings (there may be more than one font to build)
-  profiles.forEach(profile => buildFont(profile));
+  profiles.forEach((profile) => buildFont(profile, { italicsHack }));
 
   console.log('Done');
 }
 
-const buildFont = profile => {
+const buildFont = (profile, options) => {
   // add suffix to dstFileName if present
   const dstFileName = `./build/${ligFontName}${profile.suffixWithLeadingHyphen}.ttx`;
   console.log(
@@ -44,19 +48,19 @@ const buildFont = profile => {
   const ligatures = sortLigatures(
     fs
       .readdirSync(`./ligature/${ligFontName}/glyphs`)
-      .filter(file => /\.xml$/.test(file))
-      .map(file => file.replace('.xml', ''))
+      .filter((file) => /\.xml$/.test(file))
+      .map((file) => file.replace('.xml', ''))
   )
-    .filter(name => !/\d+\.liga$/.test(name)) // skip alternates (ends with .#)
-    .filter(name => filterLigatures(name, profile.ligatures))
-    .map(name => mapLigatures(name, profile.ligatures))
-    .filter(entry => filterGlyphsExists(entry));
+    .filter((name) => !/\d+\.liga$/.test(name)) // skip alternates (ends with .#)
+    .filter((name) => filterLigatures(name, profile.ligatures))
+    .map((name) => mapLigatures(name, profile.ligatures))
+    .filter((entry) => filterGlyphsExists(entry));
 
   const ligaturesWithLIG = ligatures;
   //[...ligatures, { name: 'LIG', glyph: 'LIG' }];
 
   processPatch('names', patchNames, dom, ligatures, profile);
-  processPatch('gsub', patchGsub, dom, ligatures);
+  processPatch('gsub', patchGsub, dom, ligatures, options);
   processPatch('charstrings', patchCharStrings, dom, ligaturesWithLIG);
   processPatch('glyphs', patchGlyphs, dom, ligaturesWithLIG);
   processPatch('hmtx', patchHmtx, dom);
@@ -75,8 +79,8 @@ const getProfiles = () => {
         suffix: '',
         suffixWithLeadingSpace: '',
         suffixWithLeadingHyphen: '',
-        ligatures: []
-      }
+        ligatures: [],
+      },
     ];
   }
 
@@ -86,8 +90,8 @@ const getProfiles = () => {
   const content = fs.readFileSync(profilePath, 'utf-8');
   content
     .split(/\r|\r\n|\n/g)
-    .filter(line => /^[#]/.test(line) === false && line.length > 0)
-    .forEach(line => {
+    .filter((line) => /^[#]/.test(line) === false && line.length > 0)
+    .forEach((line) => {
       const ch = line.trim()[0];
       if (ch === '[') {
         let name = line.substr(1, line.indexOf(']') - 1);
@@ -96,7 +100,7 @@ const getProfiles = () => {
           suffix: name === 'default' ? '' : name,
           suffixWithLeadingSpace: name === 'default' ? '' : ' ' + name,
           suffixWithLeadingHyphen: name === 'default' ? '' : '-' + name,
-          ligatures: []
+          ligatures: [],
         };
         profiles.push(profile);
       } else {
@@ -113,12 +117,12 @@ const getProfiles = () => {
 const filterLigatures = (name, mappings) => {
   // loop through mappings and return if name applies or not
   // skip if setting is !name
-  return mappings.filter(entry => entry === '!' + name).length === 0;
+  return mappings.filter((entry) => entry === '!' + name).length === 0;
 };
 
 const mapLigatures = (name, mappings) => {
   let mapping = { name, glyph: name };
-  mappings.forEach(entry => {
+  mappings.forEach((entry) => {
     const [val1, val2] = entry.split('=');
     // handle lig=altliga
     if (val1 === name) {
@@ -135,10 +139,10 @@ const filterGlyphsExists = ({ glyph }) => {
   return exists;
 };
 
-const sortLigatures = ligatures => {
+const sortLigatures = (ligatures) => {
   // sort by most glyphs then alphabetically
   const sorted = ligatures
-    .map(ligature => {
+    .map((ligature) => {
       return { count: ligature.split('_').length + 1, ligature: ligature };
     })
     .sort(
@@ -146,7 +150,7 @@ const sortLigatures = ligatures => {
         -compareProperty(a.count, b.count) || // sort by count descending
         compareProperty(a.ligature, b.ligature) // then by ligature alphabetically
     )
-    .map(entry => entry.ligature);
+    .map((entry) => entry.ligature);
   return sorted;
 };
 
@@ -158,20 +162,20 @@ const compareProperty = (a, b) => {
   }
 };
 
-const loadXml = name => {
+const loadXml = (name) => {
   const fileName = `./ligature/${ligFontName}/${name}.xml`;
   const xml = fs.readFileSync(fileName, 'utf-8');
   return new DOMParser().parseFromString(xml);
 };
 
-const processPatch = (name, patchFunc, dom, ligatures, profile) => {
+const processPatch = (name, patchFunc, dom, ligatures, profile, options) => {
   console.log(`Patching ${name}`);
-  patchFunc(dom, ligatures, profile);
+  patchFunc(dom, ligatures, profile, options);
 };
 
 const PlatformId = {
   mac: 1,
-  win: 3
+  win: 3,
 };
 
 const NameId = {
@@ -182,7 +186,7 @@ const NameId = {
   version: 5,
   postscriptName: 6,
   windowsFamilyName: 16,
-  fontStyleName: 17
+  fontStyleName: 17,
 };
 
 const patchNames = (dom, ligatures, profile) => {
@@ -253,7 +257,7 @@ const patchGlyphs = (dom, ligatures) => {
   // only import glyphs specified
   let n = glyphsCount;
   // get ligature glyphs
-  ligatures.forEach(ligature => {
+  ligatures.forEach((ligature) => {
     targetGlyphs.appendChild(
       createElementWithAttributes('GlyphID', { id: n++, name: ligature.glyph })
     );
@@ -262,18 +266,19 @@ const patchGlyphs = (dom, ligatures) => {
   setAttribute(dom, '/ttFont/maxp/numGlyphs', 'value', n);
 };
 
-const patchGsub = (dom, ligatures) => {
+const patchGsub = (dom, ligatures, options) => {
   // don't patch if no ligatures other than LIG
   if (ligatures.length <= 1) return;
+  gsub.initGsubTables(dom, options);
 
-  ligatures.forEach(ligature => {
+  ligatures.forEach((ligature) => {
     // build gsub tables
-    gsub.buildGsubTables(dom, ligature);
+    gsub.buildGsubTables(dom, ligature, options);
   });
   gsub.finalizeGsubTables();
 };
 
-const patchHmtx = dom => {
+const patchHmtx = (dom) => {
   const mtxCount = xpath.select('count(/ttFont/hmtx/mtx)', dom, true);
   setAttribute(dom, '/ttFont/hhea/numberOfHMetrics', 'value', mtxCount);
 
@@ -306,7 +311,7 @@ const patchCharStrings = (dom, ligatures) => {
   );
   const targetGsubrs = xpath.select('/ttFont/CFF/GlobalSubrs', dom, true);
   const fingerprints = {};
-  ligatures.forEach(ligature => {
+  ligatures.forEach((ligature) => {
     console.log(
       `* ${ligature.name}${
         ligature.name === ligature.glyph ? '' : ' => ' + ligature.glyph
@@ -318,11 +323,11 @@ const patchCharStrings = (dom, ligatures) => {
 
     const subrs = {
       sourcePath: '/Glyph/Subrs',
-      target: targetSubrs
+      target: targetSubrs,
     };
     const gsubrs = {
       sourcePath: '/Glyph/GlobalSubrs',
-      target: targetGsubrs
+      target: targetGsubrs,
     };
 
     patchCharStringSubrs(glyphDom, node, fingerprints, subrs, gsubrs);
@@ -332,16 +337,16 @@ const patchCharStrings = (dom, ligatures) => {
       createElementWithAttributes('mtx', {
         name: ligature.glyph,
         width: glyphDom.getAttribute('width'),
-        lsb: glyphDom.getAttribute('lsb')
+        lsb: glyphDom.getAttribute('lsb'),
       })
     );
     const code = glyphDom.getAttribute('code');
     if (code) {
-      Array.from(targetCmaps).forEach(node => {
+      Array.from(targetCmaps).forEach((node) => {
         node.appendChild(
           createElementWithAttributes('map', {
             code,
-            name: ligature.glyph
+            name: ligature.glyph,
           })
         );
       });
@@ -354,7 +359,7 @@ const patchCharStringSubrs = (glyphDom, node, fingerprints, subrs, gsubrs) => {
 
   const lines = node.childNodes[0].textContent.split(/\r|\r\n|\n/g);
   const newLines = [];
-  lines.forEach(line => {
+  lines.forEach((line) => {
     if (line.trim().length === 0) return;
     const matches = line.match(/(.*?)\{([0-9a-z]+)\} (callsubr|callgsubr)$/);
     if (matches != null) {
@@ -403,21 +408,21 @@ const copyConfigAttribute = (dom, configDom, path, name) => {
 
 const createElementWithAttributes = (tagName, attributes) => {
   const element = dom.createElement(tagName);
-  Object.entries(attributes).forEach(attribute => {
+  Object.entries(attributes).forEach((attribute) => {
     element.setAttribute(attribute[0], attribute[1]);
   });
   return element;
 };
 
 //const dump = dom => console.log(serialize(dom));
-const serialize = dom =>
-  new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(dom, false, node => {
+const serialize = (dom) =>
+  new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(dom, false, (node) => {
     if (node.nodeType === NodeType.TEXT_NODE) {
       if (regExWhitespace.test(node.data)) return null;
       const data = node.data
         .split(/\r|\r\n|\n/g)
-        .filter(s => /\S+/.test(s))
-        .map(s => s.replace(/^\s+/g, ''))
+        .filter((s) => /\S+/.test(s))
+        .map((s) => s.replace(/^\s+/g, ''))
         .join(os.EOL);
 
       return node.ownerDocument.createTextNode(data);
diff --git a/sample.html b/sample.html
index f55b981..5c8d5ad 100644
--- a/sample.html
+++ b/sample.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   }
 </style>
 
-<!-- html comment -->
+<!-- html comment a => b && c++ -->
 
 <div class="header">
   <a href="http://localhost">Click Here</a>
diff --git a/sample.js b/sample.js
index dee8ba7..5a23062 100644
--- a/sample.js
+++ b/sample.js
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+// @ts-nocheck
+
 const func = (a, b, c, d, e, f, s, n) => {
 // this is a comment
     if (a++ && b-- || c >= d || e <= f) {
@@ -10,6 +12,16 @@ const func = (a, b, c, d, e, f, s, n) => {
     a |> b
     a <| b |> c -> d ==> e
 
+    // if (a++ && b-- || c >= d || e <= f) {
+    // }
+    // if (s === 'string' && n !== 999) {
+    // }
+    // if (a == b && c != d)
+    // a ?? b
+    // a <- b <-- c <== d
+    // a |> b
+    // a <| b |> c -> d ==> e
+
   // italic ligatures
   // != == >= <= -> => ==>
   // === !== && || ++ --