FontCreator 5.6 does not use a project file for a font.
Scanahand 4 does not use a project file for a font.
I have a number of fonts made using older versions of FontCreator that contain ligature glyphs in the Private Use Area. For example, my Chronicle Text font.
I enjoy making fonts using Scanahand 4, including ligature glyphs in some of them using the Private Use Area.
I would like to try making OpenType fonts using the glyphs from those fonts.
With my experiments thus far I have started a new project in FontCreator 7 and copied glyphs over as just artwork with an ordinary paste, not a paste special, rather than risk trying to make a project file from an outside font before gaining some experience in producing working OpenType fonts using FontCreator 7.
Could High-Logic please say whether that is the best approach to use or is it perfectly possible to produce a correct FontCreator 7 project file from a font that was made using Scanahand 4 or that was made using an earlier version of FontCreator?
When making a quote where one emphasises some words, a usual practice is that one puts (my italics) after the qoute in order to show that the person quoted did not use the emphasis as it appears in the quote, but that the emphasis is made by the person writing about the quote. I suppose that when bold type is used for the emphasis that one could add or (my emboldening).
The risk is that I do not know quite what would happen if a project file is made from a font that has been made with FontCreator 5.6 or made with Scanahand 4 rather than being made as a new standalone project file in FontCreator 7. So, as all three programs are made by High-Logic I thought that I would ask.
Now I know that it is not the same thing, but what is on my mind is what happened with my Quest text font.
I first became interested in making my own fonts as a result of reading a post in the Unicode mailing list.
Quest text was the first complete alphabet font that I produced.
Later I began to use FontCreator and continued to develop the Quest text font.
However, there was a problem, which appeared to be due to the fact that the Quest text font was not quite as it would have been had it been started in FontCreator.
I wondered if there were any other problems with the font of which I was not aware.
So, I started a new font in FontCreator and copied the glyphs as just artwork, no mappings, from the original font to the new font.
So I thought it important to ask the question. It may be that all is compatible, in which case that will save me the activity that I would have needed if a conversion were necessary; or it may be that a conversion is necessary, in which case that activity will ensure a correct font. Or maybe compatible from one program yet not from another.
Thank you, William. I am, of course, aware of the convention to which you refer, but it is generally used where the quoted text is not immediately available to the reader in its original context. On a forum such as this one, where you can see the quoted post in full, emboldening provides a useful way of highlighting a part of the quoted text which is particularly relevant to the point being made in reply.
