As Martin Hosken reported in https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/pull/1096,
feaLib currently incorrectly handles the case where a marked input
glyph sequence in a contextual chaining sub/pos rule is split into
multiple runs, rather than being a single continuous run of ' marked
glyphs.
The consensus there was to raise a syntax error like makeotf instead of
second-guessing and silently fixing it like fontforge does.