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Old news, but in case you missed it, OpenType specification version 1.5 has been released May 2008. It seems Microsoft's Typography group released it in silence, as their Typography news section doesn't mention the release. Thomas "my other car is a sans serif" Phinney did mention the Open...

Good! What do you think about adding this information to xml: - metrics as percent of slot height (winascent, ascender, capheight, x-height, baseline, descender, windescent... is there any other?) - glyph_title_cell_height (this could be variable, if people want print bigger sample glyphs or want t...

Here is how the two page template with Basic and Extended Characters will look like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <DATA> <Template> <Name>Basic and Extended Characters</Name> <Columns>10</Columns> <Rows>11</Rows> <Characters>$41-$5A,$3F,$21,$25-$26,$61-$7A,$3A-$3B,...

Here is a time saver:

Select the characters in the Overview window and then press the "P". You will get all characters in the preview edit field.

It's not possible right now.

FYI Microsoft naming fields are stored in UTF-16 format (2 bytes per plane 0 character), while Macintosh naming fields are stored in Mac format (one byte per character).

Problems continue. I tried making typecase_spaces.pdf and could not copy out into WordPad, Word 97 and SC Unipad without the spaces each converting to U+0020 and I tried making typecase_combination_border_private_use_area.pdf and found that I could not copy out into WordPad (I got an array of spots...

I think it would be useful if you post an article that explains when to use which quotation mark (although it is language specific), and also explain how to cope with Auto Correct features that replace a combination of characters into a corresponding symbol. For example when you type (c) in Microsof...

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:You could, of course, use a wonderful program called MainType to do the same task. It can paste characters into the background application like this:

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+1 for MainType

Best of all, it shows you whether a specific character does exist in a font.

I think you need to edit or make a GSUB table, and specify which form of your characters is needed in each context. Check out the Microsoft Typography web site for information on making OpenType fonts. There are free tools, some specs, and even some articles explaining how to use their Visual OpenTy...

What I would like to store in the xml files: Characters (range of characters, e.g. 65-90,63,33,37,38,97-122,58,59,46,44,48-57,43,45,126,61,177,etc.) [maybe] UnicodeRange (might be better to auto calculate it) Is it enough to store only UnicodeRange in which I mean the unicode code points that are i...

What people think about e.g. light red sample characters in slots to help vertical placing of drawing? The idea was introduced in January this year during the beta period of version 1 by an old friend. And is still in use AFAIK... This was my response: Your alternative template has several benefits...

What I would like to store in the xml files: Name (name as shown in Scanahand, e.g. Dutch, English, or Basic and Extended Characters) Columns (number of columns per page) Rows (number of rows per page) Characters (range of characters, e.g. 65-90,63,33,37,38,97-122,58,59,46,44,48-57,43,45,126,61,177,...

If the tests indicate that at the top of the template page printed Data Matrix Barcode is reliable, then separate xml files aren't needed. I believe they are reliable because they are used in e.g. aeroplane parts logistics and post traffic tracking. The Barcode can store the same page related infor...

Not all Czech characters are included, so that one is now removed from the list. The two page template still covers a lot of languages: English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Estonian, Faeroese, Frisian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, I...

I've added the missing Hungarian characters:

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