I’m creating symbols using font creator for use with ESRI mapping software. How do you set the insetion point for a particular font, middle justified for instance?
The contours of most glyphs in normal fonts are approximately centred between the left and right side bearings, but some glyphs, e.g. for italics, or for combining diacritical marks, have a negative left side-bearing.
To centre a contour on the insertion point one would simply centre the contours on the x=0 axis with a large negative side-bearing and an equal advance width to the normal character.