Complete Composites

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Creating Composites in the Home Edition

The Home Edition of FontCreator doesn’t have the Complete Composites feature to create composites automatically, but if you just need the usual ANSI characters it is not hard to do with copy and paste.

Step One

  1. In the glyph overview, copy the base character and the accent to the clipboard in the glyph overview. In the illustration, I have copied just a and o, plus the diaeresis accent, but you could, for example, copy all lowercase glyphs at once (copy the dotless ı not the normal i glyph).

Step Two

  1. Open the glyph edit window for the target glyph, in this case ä diaeresis, and paste the clipboard contents to get something like this:

Step Three

  1. Delete the unwanted glyph members and adjust the accents for horizontal position while holding the shift key to constrain the vertical position.

You can also Insert Glyphs from the Insert menu or the Glyph toolbar to add composite glyph members to an empty glyph or to a composite glyph. Copy and paste from the overview as described above is quicker when creating a whole set of composite glyphs for the complete ANSI character set or more.