Characters in a new font.

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Is there a way for me to customize Font Creator 5 so that when I request a New font a number of additional characters are automatically set up please?

I am seeking to add capital AE macron, small ae macron, capital Y macron and small y macron. Vowels with macron are often used in texts in the Old English language to indicate long vowels, though it is a relatively modern feature not used in the original Old English texts of the Anglo-Saxon period of English history.

William Overington

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I couldn’t see any way to change the default WGL4 character set, though it would be easy enough to create your own template font and mark it as read only.

Y macron can be generated automatically by complete composites. AE and ae are not currently defined, but you could easily edit CompositeData.xml to add a couple of sections like this in the appropriate place. (Sections should be in numerical order).

<Composite><!--AE-->
<GlyphMapping>198</GlyphMapping>
	<Member>
	<GlyphMapping>65</GlyphMapping>
	</Member>
	<Member>
	<GlyphMapping>69</GlyphMapping>
		<XPos>1040</XPos>
	</Member>
	</Composite>
<Composite><!--ae-->
<GlyphMapping>230</GlyphMapping>
	<Member>
	<GlyphMapping>97</GlyphMapping>
	</Member>
	<Member>
	<GlyphMapping>101</GlyphMapping>
		<XPos>620</XPos>
	</Member>
	</Composite>
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Thank you.

William