![]() In a nutshell, the type designer needs only to design the base glyphs and the diactrics, then “build” each accented glyph with nothing more than the push of a button (literally: in FontForge, it’s CTRL-SHIFT-A). ![]() Designing all these glyphs one by one is a daunting task… but Unicode makes it easy through the use of combining diacritics. Not so in most other languages using the Latin alphabet: letters may be equipped with any of a whole menagerie of diacritics-sometimes with more than one on the same letter. For the most part, though, our letters are unadorned. We occasionally see them on words of foreign origin, such as the acute accent ´ on the é of café or the cedilla ¸ on the ç of façade. In rare cases (mostly archaic), the diaresis ¨ appears on English words like coöperate. In English, we rarely use diacritical marks. I haven’t got a reply yet but I am hoping people are just still busy at work. Here’s the meat of the email I sent this morning to the FontForge Users mailing list (yes, a mailing list apparently this is 1998), describing the problem. (Like Windows Movie Maker, FontForge has you work on a “project” that is saved in its own native file format generating a final video file or font file, respectively, is the last step of the project.) This was to be, of course, a “rough draft” of the final font, intended for use in kerning. I generated an OpenType font file from my FontForge project. (For the most part, I can either do what I need to do just using Windows Notepad… or I need more control than any word processor can provide, and jump right into Scribus, an advanced desktop publishing application.) I even downloaded Open Office, which I used a lot on my old laptop before I started using Google Docs for my occasional word processing needs. At this stage, it really needs to be looked at as a large block of text in a word processor. In FontForge, I can only work on a single line of text at a time. (That’s 1378 pairs.) I even kerned combinations that will probably never be used, like qm and kB. Oh, how I have kerning woes.Īll letter pairs have been kerned, for all 52 letters. ![]()
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