I’m trying out 6.2. I want to add Greek and Coptic letters to a font (for math texts that require symbols like epsilon, phi, etc). I figured out how to insert the range of characters, but I also want to add the glyphs. I was hoping I could just import them automatically from, say, Arial, when I added the characters, but it does not do that. I can edit each character and copy and paste the corresponding glyph from Arial, but that would really be slow and painful. Is there a better way? Thanks.
Arial is a copyrighted font, and anyway automatically inserting glyph outlines from a SansSerif font into a font that might be an italic script or a Serif font would be pointless.
If you want to copy paste from another font use the glyphs from one of my fonts, which have a GNU license agreement. Verajja is SansSerif, and Pali or Garava are Serif fonts.
You can copy hundreds of glyphs at once from the glyph overview, so it is very quick and simple. However, making sure that the glyphs match the design of your own font for caps height, stroke weight, serif design, etc., is not so easy.