Can I create ligatures in a custom template?

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Hi.

I am a new user of FontCreator, and am looking at purchasing Scanahand as a means of speeding up the whole process of producing hand written fonts. I’ve been very impressed with the trial version so far, but I haven’t been able to find any information on whether or not a custom template can be used for ligatures or stylistic alternatives. If this is not a direct capability, are there any possible workarounds?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Miriam

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You can use a regular template and then copy and paste the glyph outlines into your other font, or you can create a custom template with characters in the private use area ($E000-$F8FF). That way people can access those ligatures even when they use the font in a non-OpenType supported environment.

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Thanks for that. When you say copy and paste glyph outlines, do you mean in FontCreator?

Regards,
Miriam

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Yes. You can even decide to use Paste Special to further define what you want to copy.