Characters with Accents

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Hello Folks –

I wish to create a character set with numerous letters with different accents. My character set has a set of base consonants, and there are two sets of corresponding hard and soft consonants respectively, each set marked with a different accent mark. Also, there is a set of base vowels and three sets of modified vowels respectively, again, each marked with a different accent mark.

My questions:

  1. Will your program help me design fonts for such a character set?
  2. Are there guidelines for me to follow so that once the character set is created, I can use it from within MS Word?

Thank you for your help. And greetings from Tucson, Arizona, USA.

– Jorge.

Jorge Ochoa-Lions
Tucson, Arizona.

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What language is this for?

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The language is one that I am creating.

The base consonants are B, C, D, F, G, J, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, X, Z. I then created a set of soft and hard consonants, which are marked with a ‘ring’ accent and a ‘caron’ respectively.

The base vowels are A, E, I, O, U. Each base vowel has three modified derivatives marked with a ‘dieresis’, a ‘cedilla’ and a ‘tilde’.

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You will need to use the Private Use Area for some of the composites as not all are defined in Unicode. That also means using special keyboards for typing them. See the FAQ: How do I type Unicode characters? in the Support Forum for some methods of inputting Uncode characters.

Creating composites is easy

  • First create your base glyphs and accents
  • Insert characters and select from the Latin Extended sets. That will add the correct mappings for those glyphs
  • Complete composites
  • Adjust accents for vertical position on lowercase
  • Adjust composites for position of accents on uppercase

To add those composites not defined in Unicode:

  • Select the base glyph and accent in the glyph overview with control click
  • Copy
  • Open a new empty glyph
  • Paste to create the composite
  • Adjust the accent
  • Map the glyph to the Private Use Area
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Thank you. It looks like FontCreator is the perfect tool for what I need to do. I have placed my order.

I will have a few questions as I read through the materials in the Forum.