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Ok, thanks Alfred, I'll give it a try.

Ok. The font works beautifully in InDesign. It is working neither in Photoshop nor in Illustrator, however. Baffling. But at least it's working somewhere! Thanks again to everybody for all your input, and to Bhikkhu for taking the time to straighten out my code and mappings. I really have learned a ...

I attach my version of the Sqwash project file so that you can see how it can be done with less code. I have stripped the lowercase subs, and left the uppercase ones, as its more usual to have a font with no lowercase, than no uppercase. Both code-points for "A" (65) and "a"(97)...

Ahhhh! Thank you so much. Totally forgot about that little export feature. Bhikkhu, next time I do this I will definitely just map the upper/lowercase to each other! I'd already re-written all the code by the time I read your suggestion... =) Thanks again everybody for being so much help!

Ok, I just attached the project file. Thanks so much for all the help!

I think I can attach the source code separately. Oh. The extension otlfd is not allowed for attachment uploads. Sorry...

Thanks so much, William! Yes, there should be at least 104 substitutions : i + all 26 letters should each result in a combined glyph; the same for l, r, and j.

The diacritical glyphs aren't open-type--they're just normal ascii fill-ins.

Ok, my code is revised. Semi-colons: check. Caps: check. Compiles: check. Install font: no substitutions. The OT information should be encapsulated within the typeface file, yes? I don't need to have a distinct file anywhere? (I'm presuming not, since when I install other OT typefaces they do fine a...

Hrm. My script works... (or is error-free, in any case), but the letter substitutions don't work in the Test Font window. Back to the drawing board. Nor do they work in an open type program (Illustrator).

Another lesson learned: Case matters. And since my font is uni-case (same glyphs for caps and lowercase), I'm guessing that means I need to do the 110 substitutions in both lowercase and uppercase... Rough way to learn Open Type!

Hrm. Appears to be a compiling error (btw, you can't copy the error message, which is a bit annoying. Hence the screen shot.) Missing semi-colon(s), it says.

Gotcha, thanks!

Wow, thank you--so very helpful! I'll have to look up the rlig and liga links you gave. For the moment I've been adding the glyphs into Private Space--is that ok? I figured out how to deal with the glyph properties, so that's all good. Only 84 more required ligatures to go... =). Thanks again Bhikkhu.

I'm making a new font which has several very open characters (i, j, r) in particular. I'm working in Illustrator, and have made all the joined characters that I need ("ra", "ir", etc.). With Font Creator 7, are these considered ligatures (and if so, how do I define the new ligatu...

Thanks so much, went and upgraded!