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Bhikkhu showed this file:

The alphabet of 26 drop capitals took about 3 seconds to import.

Where is the source of this pdf file? I would be interested in viewing it to compare with some initials letters I have made. Is it available?

William, The IME pad works transparently and does not affect any word processor program you may use, in principle. Generally it is optimised to work with MS Word and the Atok system IME pad with both Word and their own Word Process program made by Just Systems, a Japanese company that specializes in...

Thanks for your reply which, a usual, is exhaustive in information and welcome. I feel that with every thread I get from you I am edging closer to becoming a top typographer. Jokes apart, Bhikkhu, the mappings are correct because they worked for the minuscule letters but not for the majuscules. Ther...

Thanks for the link to Graphite (SIL), now I know what the generic term Graphite in the previous thread meant. That stub was interesting to read but I could never have found it as in my mental domain the word "graphite" was not linked to an alternative software programming language for fon...

Vanisaac wrote: If it's truly contextual, you can actually hard code the rules into open type/graphite, and it will automatically select the right contextual glyphs. I think you are becoming the embodiment of the old axiom of every problem looking like a nail. There are lots of technical answers to ...

No I did not solve the problem. I concluded that it was best to copy the diacritics and the letters from the root glyphs. The reason was aldo due tot he fact that the diacritics in most cases required alignment with the slanting of the cursive script and also the diacritic glyph for the Capitals was...

Bhikkhu wrote: The ligature features use many -> one substitutions, so e.g. f + f -> ff ligature. Stylistic alternates (salt) can use one -> one substitutions, but they require manual input, which is inefficient, but very flexible as the user can decide which letter form to insert. One glyph has a l...

Your comments and inputs were much appreciated. I am enclosing another pdf example sheet in which I try to answer some of the questions. Judge for yourself if I grasped the issue well enough and do not forget to bear in mind that I am a "dilettante" in typography. More specifically I think...

Your suggestions are noted but since I am not familiar with Open Type fonts I am not able to comment further. However, I spent some time yesterday reading about OTF on the fontshop.com website. It seems to me that the literature on this subject assumes that the reader knows what OTF can do for him o...

Thanks for your inputs chaps. I try to be a little clearer with the attached example in pdf. You will notice that I dleiberately mispelt the word "most" to read "morst" so that I could show the absence of ligature when I use the normal "r" which, in most cases, requires...

I would like to propose a discussion group on transliteration Input Method Editors for entering alternative styles of Latin characters into a Latin based character set. It is often desirable to have alternative styles of some characters and be able to enter them into an application as easily as typi...

Hi, I am having a problem with the "Complete Composites" command. The minuscule letter vowels work fine witht he "complete composite" command but the capital letters do not seem to work. The glyphs for the capital letters are copied into the composite respective cells but the dia...

Thank you for your reply Bhikkhu. I have solved the problem by raising the Win Ascent line by 600 funits. The result is to reduce the 12pts size by 20% relative to TNR. I guess I will have to accept that. The highest diacritc is the circumflex accent and that might enable me to reduce the funit to 5...

While developing a copperplate script and after doing more than 4000 kerning pairs I realized that I ignored the Capital diacritic or accented vowels. I thought I would do those at the end. Now that I am at the end I have no space left to put the accents on top of the Mujuscule vowels. That is a lot...

Hi Pesala, I tried your suggestion of renaming the guideline.dat file but it does not work. Even by removing the older file guideline.dat from the roaming folder and replacing it with the renamed one, after due corrections to the new guidelines, then on relaunching the program the previous guideline...