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by William
Thu Jan 10, 2019 5:22 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Italicizer Maquette font
Replies: 7
Views: 13570

Re: Italicizer Maquette font

Here are some letters, each followed by a U+EA60 character.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÉ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzé

William
by William
Thu Jan 10, 2019 5:14 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Italicizer Maquette font
Replies: 7
Views: 13570

Italicizer Maquette font

Italicizer Maquette font Here is a font that I have made today. I refer to a post by me in a thread in the Unicode mailing list. http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2019-m01/0018.html This font is a maquette to try out the idea. I have encoded the special character at U+EA60 (it is Alt 6000...
by William
Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:51 am
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Size of the glyph
Replies: 5
Views: 3525

Re: Size of the glyph

An important thing to know is that in Windows based systems (I don't know one way or the other about other systems) when one chooses a particular point size in an application program, the point size is only from the baseline upwards. So in a font where the lower part of g j p q y goes below the base...
by William
Mon Jan 07, 2019 11:09 am
Forum: Specification
Topic: Historical forms and historical ligatures
Replies: 5
Views: 10248

Re: Historical forms and historical ligatures

That really is good.

Thank you for pointing it out both here and in the Affinity Publisher forum.

I have downloaded a copy of your Lekhana font and I am trying it out.

Thank you.

William
by William
Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:35 am
Forum: Specification
Topic: Historical forms and historical ligatures
Replies: 5
Views: 10248

Re: Historical forms and historical ligatures

I have now added the following to the Affinity Publisher forum.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. ... apability/

William
by William
Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:07 am
Forum: Specification
Topic: Historical forms and historical ligatures
Replies: 5
Views: 10248

Re: Historical forms and historical ligatures

Thank you.

I had been trying to find that for some time.

William
by William
Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:30 am
Forum: Specification
Topic: Historical forms and historical ligatures
Replies: 5
Views: 10248

Historical forms and historical ligatures

In the thread https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7824 MikeW mentions historical forms. I have it in mind to suggest in the Affinity Publisher forum that historical ligature ligature become included in the Affinity Publisher program. Thus far I have found that there appear to be two...
by William
Sat Jan 05, 2019 6:22 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Alternate ligature glyphs
Replies: 3
Views: 4136

Re: Alternate ligature glyphs

Well I searched for aalt and found some code that I had written some years ago. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4314&p=20480#p20458 Yet the next post in that thread advise me to use salt instead of aalt. I clearly need to read up on it, because I have just tried to make a fo...
by William
Sat Jan 05, 2019 5:37 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Alternate ligature glyphs
Replies: 3
Views: 4136

Alternate ligature glyphs

The following thread shows the basis of the problem. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/76232-ligature-capability/ The following thread is interesting background but probably not essential. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7815 A gentleman writing in the Affinity P...
by William
Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:43 am
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Previewing ligature glyphs
Replies: 2
Views: 3653

Previewing ligature glyphs

Suppose that one is designing a ligature glyph for an OpenType font, for example a ct ligature with c_t as the glyph name, but no code point assigned. Suppose that one wishes to preview the design in the Preview panel, by pressing p on the highlighted glyph cell while in glyph overview mode. Alas, t...
by William
Thu Jan 03, 2019 5:04 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: Is .notdef required or not?
Replies: 10
Views: 9656

Re: Is .notdef required or not?

I presume those are the only "empty" glyphs (or non-glyphs -- since there is no actual glyph) that a font should have, eh? The space character does not usually have any contours in it, but it does need a codepoint, namely hexadecimal 20, and it does need an advance width so that every tim...
by William
Thu Dec 27, 2018 4:18 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: I am trying to make a font with some stylistic alternates
Replies: 4
Views: 3603

Re: I am trying to make a font with some stylistic alternates

Here is a PDF document which contains a poem that I have written which shows the font in action. white.pdf What is really good about the Serif Affinity Publisher Beta program is that the PDF document produced is such that although three ligatures and two stylistic alternates are used, copying the te...
by William
Thu Dec 27, 2018 3:38 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: I am trying to make a font with some stylistic alternates
Replies: 4
Views: 3603

Re: I am trying to make a font with some stylistic alternates

Here is the font.

ligatst3.otf
Ligature test 3 font
(11.38 KiB) Downloaded 404 times

This font not only has some ligatures but also two stylistic alternates for lowercase e, intended for the ends of (some) lines in poetry, which stylistic alternates are not ligatures.

William
by William
Thu Dec 27, 2018 12:46 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: I am trying to make a font with some stylistic alternates
Replies: 4
Views: 3603

Re: I am trying to make a font with some stylistic alternates

Thank you Erwin.

I have changed the script and it compiles without hints.

Excellent.

William
by William
Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:27 am
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: I am trying to make a font with some stylistic alternates
Replies: 4
Views: 3603

I am trying to make a font with some stylistic alternates

I am trying to make a font with some stylistic alternates. It is a test for trying out the Serif Affinity Publisher program. I have thus far made one post in the following thread. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/75641-copying-text-out-of-a-pdf-document-when-the-font-has-opentype-li...