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CHAPTER 1 A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MAINTYPE 1.1 Brief 1.2 WHAT'S NEW IN MAINTYPE 10 1.3 Technical support 1.4 Release description and registration Chapter 2 User Interface 2.1 Introduction to the user interface 2.2 Menu 2.3 Toolbar 2.4 Panel 2.5 Custom interface layout Chapter 3 Font Management 3.1 In...

I don't see why it should be hard to search only for duplicates in the filtered view or font group.

I can use tags to show duplicates in any group.

I suggest creating a group when adding a folder. Then it is easy to delete all of the fonts from the group and delete the group. If you want to keep any of the fonts, remove them from the group before selecting the others for deletion. This option permanently removes the fonts from the MainType vaul...

The Glyph Transform can be used to batch process all selected glyphs. For your case, say you want to move the glyphs up by 200 units and scale them up by 120% you would use these settings.

You seem to be doing fine. Debugging is not my idea of fun, but it is satisfying when you finally figure it out. To save time in debugging fonts, don't bother to uninstall the old version and install the new one. Open the Font Test window (F5) and select the test font in Word. Select Test Font.png

All seems to be working fine here in Serif PagePlus and LibreOffice. I do not use Word.

The Ligature 1 lookup is empty and seems to be superfluous. Deleting that does not seem to make any difference.

If all of your glyphs are below the baseline they may align with each other just fine, but if you use another font in the same line of text they will be out of position. Some glyphs may need to overshoot the baseline, while others with flat bases may sit right on it. Move all of your glyphs up by th...

Your glyphs are way below the baseline. I would fix that first. Then, Font Properties, Metrics, Calculate will maximise the size of the text for any given point size, but the design of the font with a small x-height compared to the Ascenders and Descenders will always result in text that is smaller ...

That is because you're typing in the Preview Toolbar, where the forward slash is used as an escape character . It is documented in the help topic on the Preview in FontCreator . Type /down and you will see what the slash does in the Preview Toolbar. If you type a/c in the font test window, the first...

That is why I asked if your program supports OpenType features. You may be confused between OpenType fonts and OpenType features. Programs that support some OpenType features may enable standard ligatures by default (Notepad does this), but have no interface to enable ligatures, ordinals, Oldstyle F...

Substitutions Supported by FontCreator 13.

For your superscripts, I presume that you need single substitutions like two -> twosuperior (2 -> ²)

My lookup for superscripts uses classes to reduce the number of lines of code needed.

Does your music program support OpenType ligatures and GPOS kerning? The lookup is for a single glyph substitution not for ligatures, but it illustrates the use of classes. When the OpenType Oldstyle Figures feature is enabled, ordinary figures one, two, etc., are substituted with one.onum, two.onum...

In my Pali Font, I have defined Oldstyle figures like this: OldStyle Figures Lookup.png The lookup needs ten lines of code. I already have a class for figures, but I could add another class for Oldstyle Figures. OldStyle Figures Class.png Now I can rewrite the lookup using a single line of code. Ol...

I envisage two problems here:

1. Dorito probably uses a custom font that is protected by copyright
2. It may not support OpenType features.

This is usually done in the word-processor that you use to write with the font.

Do you want superscript to be applied whenever the text is in brackets?