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I have just done an implementation of ordinals which uses a simple brute force and ignorance approach to the problem, nothing fancy and no chained context. Just a Ligature substitution table and 20 extra composite glyphs in the font (10 for ordinary numbers and 10 for old style numbers). This implem...

Basically I want to substitute a glyph for two letters but only after a number, simples yes ? :lol: The question is, can I make a Ligature substitution lookup dependent upon a chaining context ? what I have at the moment is -- lookup ChainingContext2 { context (@th_num) @lc_alpha; sub 0 Ligature6; }...

SHOCK ... HORROR :shock: :roll: Ordinals and Fractions don't play well together in many other fonts including professionally designed expensive fonts which really ought to know better !! Many of them turn all lower case text to superscript inappropriately. I am still stumbling about in the dark with...

It would indeed be good if they could play nicely together.

Thanks.

I thought there was a way but I must have missed the icon.

Ordinals and Fractions don't play nicely together but one must remember that for any given section of text the user of the font is only ever likely to enable ordinals or fractions, they are probably not going to enable both at once.

In Open Type Designer the font used in the code editor is somewhat small on a high DPI screen.

Is there a way of setting the size and/or font used ? I have had a quick look in the options and nothing stood out.

If there isn't a way of setting the font of the code editior then there ought to be.

The Bold and thin transformations are just an aid so that you don't have to do all the work yourself. They can scale horizontally and vertially by different amounts. They are a starting point, not an end point. The reason it is impractical for the program to do all the work itself is that scaling ho...

They are Runes.

Look at the Unicode block $16A0 to $16FF (Runic).

Did you use Paste or Paste Special to put the glyphs into your font ?

If you just pasted them in then the outlines would be pasted but none of the metadata so they would not have codepoints and so Wordpad would use a fallback font which may well be MSMincho.

You can also press 'Control' and use the mouse wheel.

I usually have the main window maximised on the larger monitor (always the one on the right) and all the toolbars dialog boxes and menus on the second monitor to keep them out of the way of the main window.

I don't understand the proper application of the anchor types "mark" and "base". Does a "base" anchor only go on the base glyph, and the "mark" anchor only on the mark glyph? Yes. When you add an anchor to a base glyph it should be a 'base' type anchor, when ...

These are the latest versions of 'Munson'.

I think it's just about finished now.

Unless anyone can find a problem I've overlooked.

I can highly recommend a dual monitor system.

One screen for the actual program window and the other screen for dialogs toolbars and even the menus if you want leaving the largest screen area for the glyph overview and the glyph edit window.

It does take some time to get used to but it is worth it.