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Thank you.

You just inserted a space between glyphs or glyph ranges, which is easy.

Fairly simple question.
If I need to define a non-continguous class of glyphs, how do I do it?

The standard is
class @class1 [A-Z]

But how would I specify A-S and V, for example?

I'm still looking through the forum posts and manual but haven't found it yet...

Thanks.

I need to make about 500 glyphs. My understanding of diacriticals is that they can be combined with base characters to create new glyphs within the font, occupying a codespace. I am trying to find a method of creating a glyph composed of two part, printed in exactly the same location, as a single gl...

I've asked several questions here, received advice, viewed tutorials, tried multiple times, and still cannot figure out how to get pair adjustment working on a graphic font. I've created a test font with only two characters, one and two. In theory, entering 12 should produce a single character, but ...

Well, making the font was not complicated. Thank you. It can input the needed glyphs into Word correctly, once ligatures are enabled. Two new problems, however: The Word document cannot be saved as a PDF without printing the base and ligature separately (adjacent to each other on the line). And they...

Thank you again.

After a large number of failed experiments I've finally understood what you did, and made a new font that works.
Now that the mechanics are working, building the actual font will be pretty simple.
Long and boring, but simple.

Edward

Thank you, Erwin.

I see several things I need to learn more about before I can get anywhere.
I appreciate the time you spent.

Edward

In which case it seems I simply haven't made it correctly. Would you (or someone) be willing to look at a test font and get it working for two characters? If I can see what you've done, I should be able to make the needed font myself. I'm attaching the test font here in hopes that someone can spare ...

Thank you, Erwin. So apparently it is not impossible to do what I want. In which case there are several more questions, if you have the time: 1. Would Word support this function for a mark-to-base implementation? 2. Would Word support this function for a ligature implementation? 3-4. Same questions ...

Yes, you did reply to my question. However, as I pointed out, either your solution does not solve my problem, or I am doing something wrong. I asked for clarification and didn't get any, so I rephrased the question and tried again. If you can't help me understand what the problem is, please stop res...

I want to do something and don't know if it's possible in FontCreator or not. I'm hoping someone can explain how to do it, or state that it's not possible. For purposes of explanation, say that I have an underbar (_) mapped to keyboard character A and a plus mark (+) mapped to keyboard character B a...

If my understanding is correct, a composite glyph is a new glyph, in the font, created by combining two elements. That new glyph is assigned to a new codespace in the font. I need a lot of glyphs, and if there is some way to make a bunch of bases, and separately a bunch other modifying glyphs, and b...

This does not appear to work. I need base 1 (circle) to exist by itself, as 1A (circle with mark A), as 1B (circle with mark B), etc.　Likewise, I need a base glyph 2 (square) for 2 by itself, 2A, 2B, etc. So the following pairs need to be defined: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, etc. I have defined a MarkPositionin...

> Do you want the dot to overlay the circle when you type A followed by B? That would be the easiest solution. > In that case, design B like a diacritical mark with zero advance width and a negative left side-bearing. Thank you. This seems reasonable. I will attempt to figure out how to do that from...

I need to create a font full of graphic symbols. I'm using a standard Latin font as the basis, but every keyboard letter corresponds to a symbol. I need a way to combine, for example, the symbol for A with the symbol for B. For ease of discussion, assume that symbol A is a circle, and symbol B is a ...