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Dell Inspiron Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.8GHz Vista Home Premium (woe is me) The first time I ran Autometriccs, I was fascinated as to what glyph it would work on next... so that when the next glyph ( it was into punctuation maybe ']' ) was likely to be under the AutoMetrics dialog, I atte...

I have created about a dozen Open Type fonts using microsoft VOLT. The scripts for Open Type features all contain glyph names of my own choosing such as alefmapiq for the Unicode HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH MAPIQ. The name of the glyph in Font Creator was uniFB30 but I did not mind as I did not use it. ...

I have just released a new version of my font see http://hebrew-font-shuneet.com HEBREW FONT SHUNEET V2.1 Changes: The font is now distributed with the SIL Open Font License. There are maybe more than a thousand other changes that possibly only an obsessive person like myself will notice. The font i...

I have created some single glyph composites. Say A is a simple glyph and B and C are derived from it. I did this because I want all three to have the same shape. Now I find that this is more trouble than its worth. I want glyphs A, B and C to be independent of each other. I'm sure this is easy to do...

Release v2.0 of the Hebrew Font Shuneet is now available from my web site. This free font features Unicode characters, True Type glyphs and OpenType layout. Version 2.0 contains three styles named Classic, Oblique and Square each in regular and bold weights as shown below. hebrew_font_shuneet_v2_499...

Thanks Bhikkhu, Sounds good. I have done an experiment with HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ which is used in 27 composites. I first set "Use this glyph's metrics" for the base glyph in all these characters. Next I moved the glyph in the dagesh character - an arbitrary amount of about 400 unit...

I'm back on this topic again. Causing me trouble again! I have to move a Hebrew diacritic called a Dagesh which is used in many composites. Doing this can change the side bearings in the composites. The left hand may be changed as well as the right. Is there any way of turning off this behavior. I'm...

If Font Creator ran on the Mac, I'd be using a Mac today!
Buying 'Parallels' increases the cost of Font creator by $80.
Mike

Difficult for me to evaluate the usefulness of these complex suggestions. Instead here are some related features that I have often felt a need for in my work. Save and restore guidelines in a named file. I need a different set of guidelines for each font and get tired of recreating them. Multiple se...

Erwin, I happen to be dealing with the Upper/Lower case combinations in my "Hebrew fonts" so I was carried away with enthusiasm. Of course the problem only applies to the Latin characters in my fonts - the Hebrew doesn't have upper and lower case! Thanks anyhow - I look forward to the new ...

Will these new features work for non-Latin characters such as Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic?
Mike

vanisaac That seems good advice. For my two fonts Shuneet Square and Shuneet Oblique, I would strive to find a 'natural' weight best suited to their design. Each would have a 'bold' weight that would be two Panose steps heavier. For instance, if the Oblique Regular happened to be of Panose weight Bo...

On my web site, there are three fonts Shuneet, Shuneet Oblique and Shuneet Square. Now I have developed seven weights for Shuneet which are light, thin, book, medium, demi, bold and heavy. I want to match the weights of the other two (Shuneet Oblique and Shuneet Square) to this progression of weight...

Thanks Erwin,
Heavens I don't know how many hours I have wasted on this....
I have tried your solution and so far ---- so good!
Mike

AMAZING DISCOVERY
I renamed the apparently corrupted font from "ShuneetDEV Oblique" to "aaaShuneet Oblique" so it would appear at the top of tediously long
font menus. The corruption has disappeared!
How can this be?
Mike