Getting my ducks in a row
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:28 am
So here I am, plugging away at my font, occasionally discovering new ligs I need to make for it 'n' stuff, and now I have 235 (and counting!) glyphs in my PUA, over 100 of which are various ligatures.
When I look at them -- and, eventually, when anyone will look at my font (in charmap or whatever) -- what one sees is all those ligs not really in any order (like, some sort of alphabetic order) or anything. I know that there are some that I can't (or shouldn't) move around or anything -- like the fi, fl, etc. ligs -- but for all those others that aren't standard ligs, there's a part of me that thinks that once I'm sure that I've finished adding in all my ligs (and pretty much finished my font), perhaps it would be nice if I rearranged all those ligs into a nicer, more easy-to-find alphabetic order. I suppose this would be particularly handy if people don't have access to OT features in their software (and, hence, the lig lookups don't work) and they need to find whatever ligature their looking for to insert manually.
Is there, actually, any value in doing (re-doing) that in that way, basically for that latter purpose? Looking at other fonts that have lots of ligs, it seems that nobody really bothers with this -- but I should think that it could be a worthwhile endeavour, for the aforementioned reason.
Should I bother (eventually)?
When I look at them -- and, eventually, when anyone will look at my font (in charmap or whatever) -- what one sees is all those ligs not really in any order (like, some sort of alphabetic order) or anything. I know that there are some that I can't (or shouldn't) move around or anything -- like the fi, fl, etc. ligs -- but for all those others that aren't standard ligs, there's a part of me that thinks that once I'm sure that I've finished adding in all my ligs (and pretty much finished my font), perhaps it would be nice if I rearranged all those ligs into a nicer, more easy-to-find alphabetic order. I suppose this would be particularly handy if people don't have access to OT features in their software (and, hence, the lig lookups don't work) and they need to find whatever ligature their looking for to insert manually.
Is there, actually, any value in doing (re-doing) that in that way, basically for that latter purpose? Looking at other fonts that have lots of ligs, it seems that nobody really bothers with this -- but I should think that it could be a worthwhile endeavour, for the aforementioned reason.
Should I bother (eventually)?