I am a rank beginner with fonts, but have a problem in trying to create new glyphs. I have a public domain font that has many stacked fractions (those with a horizontal bar). I’d like to add others such as 1/200 etc.
I was able to add a new glyph after the last in the font. The last one was labeled $ECB7, and when I right click on the glyph I learned its name is uniECB7, so I thought I’d name the new font as $ECB8. I right clicked on the new glyph, and named it uniECB8. But the glyph doesn’t show the name $ECB8. I can create the 1/200 within this new glyph box but still no name, nor if I save the font with a new name, close it, and then reopen it, the new glyph is gone.
I must be missing something really obvious but what am I doing wrong?
Bob
Which font is this? Which version of FontCreator are you using?
Adding a glyph, doesn’t add any mappings, but saving and reopening a font doesn’t delete the unmapped glyph. To use any glyph it will need to be mapped.
My GNU license fonts use mapping uniECB7 for 63/64 — mapping uniECB8 is used for the divisor and other mappings up to uniECF8 are used for the numerators and denominators.
If you wish to add more fractions, use mappings beyond that range. Unmapped glyphs cannot be used in applications, unless you add OpenType features that make use of the postscript names. That is the most user-friendly method when it comes to typing the fractions, but it limits the usefulness of the fonts to applications that support OpenType. If the glyphs are mapped, then you can use Autocorrect to replace 63/64 with the glyph assigned to uniECB7.