I have been experimenting and have produced the following font.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/POETRYAF.TTF
It is named Poetry August.
The font was designed and produced using the FontStruct facility.
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com
It was then processed using FontCreator 5.6.
Some readers may have read about an earlier version of the Poetry font in the thread about FontStruct.
The Poetry August font has an e acute alternate ending glyph encoded at the ^ codepoint. This is so that the word café can be set in a hopefully stylish manner.
The font also has various long s ligatures at the codepoints of digits 1..9 and a copy of the long s glyph at 0.
0 long s
1 long s b
2 long s h
3 long s i
4 loing s k
5 long s l
6 long s long s
7 long s long s i
8 long s long s l
9 long s t
Some readers might like a copy of the notes about how I processed the font from the original poetry016.ttf font downloaded from the FontStruct webspace.
Notes about processing the font.
Open poetryt016.ttf in FontCreator 5.6.
Save as POETRYAF.TTF Poetry August version 0.16.
Change the copyright messages.
Add postscript names.
Scale all glyphs by 400% in both directions, about the point (0,0).
Change metrics to 2048, -1024, 0.
Change Units per em to 2048.
Adjust the additional metrics on the Ranges page so that x-height is 1088 and Cap height is 1536.
Validate the font. Twenty-six glyphs have problems, many are redundant points.
Validate with automated fixing of the problems. Seven glyphs have problems remaining.
Ampersand, B, j and j circumflex, u and u breve, Qu.
Validate. No glyphs have problems.
Install and test.
The font has various non-Unicode glyphs in it, yet the font is structurally a Unicode font, so it can be used as an ordinary Unicode font for English and Esperanto text where digits and special signs are not needed.
However, hopefully the font will also be of interest for any readers who would like to experiment with producing images of text using long s ligatures using the Microsoft Paint program.
William Overington
27 August 2008