Font Forum

Interesting you mention that, William. When I first gave this a serious go earlier tonight, I had not yet realized how implausible variable to fixed-width font conversion is. I discovered pretty quickly that that the m's and w's weren't going to fit into the same space as all my other characters, so...

ah, i get it! will do.

You're really a font-tastic board member,
did you know that?

Cool! I was sincerely under the impression that that was impossible. I'm sure this is going to take me some time to figure out, but that is fantastic! They don't call you a "Top Typographer" for nothing, right?

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

Thanks for the advice! Here's what I've hammered out so far. Although it isn't too pretty, it's progress. http://www32.brinkster.com/freecandykids/catullus6.jpg this is a .doc to .pdf conversion, so not on-screen appearance, but printed. As you can see, how good it looks is entirely dependent upon s...

I've obtained a copy of the Prestige font. It looks to be perfect for what I'm trying to do. Here's a crappily painted approximation of the desired result: http://www32.brinkster.com/freecandykids/scansion.jpg Basically, you're looking at what will be four lines of text... one line of metrical chara...

I am developing a font (for personal use only) and keyboard mapping to facilitate digital representation of metrical markings in latin poetry. Basically, I wanted to take Times New Roman and convert it into a fixed width font so that I may anticipate the character lengths above which the metrical ma...