formulas for constructing Composite Glyphs

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1

Is there a way to access and edit a list of custom formulas and/or import/export them?

2

There is no easy way to export formulas, but you can insert glyphs based on formulas:

Abrevedotbelow=A+dotbelowcomb+brevecomb.case
omegatonos-grek=omega-grek+tonosmod-grek

3

If I insert glyphs, they will be unmapped, so then instead of inputting composite formula for each glyph, I have to input code-point for each glyph - either way a repetitive manual action for each glyph. :frowning: I’ve just done that for the n-th time because of the anchor problems and thought it would be a good idea to be able to export and import formulas as a batch.

I tried defining some in the CompositeData.xml, but that doesn’t seems to translate to formulas.

4

They will contain a mapping if the glyph name is recognized as a Unicode character.

Try for yourself:
Abrevedotbelow=A+dotbelowcomb+brevecomb

5

But not for PUA, e.g.
https://mufi.info/m.php?p=mufichars&i=2&v=E0

Which is why it would be very useful to be able to import/export formulas. :slight_smile:

6

See my tutorial on Customising Unicode Data.

I have not tested it in recent versions, but it should still be possible to assign parts of the PUA to MUFI glyph names and code-points.

7

See my tutorial on Customising Unicode Data.

:slight_smile:

it should still be possible to assign parts of the PUA to MUFI glyph names and code-points.

Well, I haven’t managed to make it work, but sth else seems to work around that:

  1. custom glyphnamesnew.dat in user folder, e.g.
E404;aogonekacute
E40A;amacronacute
E410;amacronbreve
  1. Insert Glyph, e.g.
aogonekacute=aogonek+acutecomb
amacronacute=amacron+acutecomb
amacronbreve=amacron+brevecomb
  1. customising the UnicodeData.txt file wasn’t required to make it work, but it does make further work easier.