I just created a font of my handwriting. Everything went well, except for two characters not showing up when I install it. The single quote and the double quote marks show up in font creator when I test it, but when I install it and use the font in Word, they don’t appear. Has anyone had this kind of problem with these or other characters? If you can offer any advice, I’d appreciate it.
In a previous post Erwin Denissen wrote:
Smart quotes (also known as curly quotes) are fancy characters which make text look better compared to the straight apostrophe (') and straight quote or inches character (").
Either turn the “Smart Quotes” preference off in the application (In Word it’s under Tools → AutoCorrect) or make sure these mappings are available in the font:
$201C " Left Double Quotation Mark
$201D " Right Double Quotation Mark
$2018 ’ Left Single Quotation Mark
$2019 ’ Right Single Quotation MarkWord also automatically changes 3 periods to an ellipsis ($2026). You can fix this two ways: add an ellipsis to the font you’re using, or you can turn off this “feature”. It’s under Tools → AutoCorrect.
Erwin Denissen
Joe.
Has anyone had this kind of problem with these or other characters?
Yes.
Word substitutes these characters with directional quotes so that text such as “Hello” and ‘Good morning’ look more like the left-side and right-side versions as used in handwriting.
This is resolved by adding four more characters to the font. In the Font Creator 5.0 template these four characters are shown shortly after OE and oe.
You might perhaps like to try two of my fonts which contain those characters which were produced using Font Creator 5.0: I delete those glyph positions of the template which I have not used prior to publishing a font, though I leave them in within the development versions of the font on the PC here so that I can straightforwardly add glyphs for them later if I so choose.
Those two fonts are Style and Galileo Lettering, both downloadable from the following web page. The files are STYLE.TTF and GALILEOL.TTF. Twenty-four point is a good size for the tests, though larger sizes may be useful too.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm
WordPad shows the basic characters without substituting directional quotes.
However, in testing that while writing this reply I have found that my Style font has them the wrong way round so that is something which I need to correct and issue an updated font! I shall try to check my other fonts too!
Anyway, that problem noted, I hope that the two fonts will help you with the problem.
I used those two fonts as the examples as some of my other fonts were produced with an older program, namely Softy, and the glyphs are thus not in the same order as for the fonts made totally using Font Creator 5.0.
William Overington
Yesterday evening I wrote as follows, regarding the glyphs for double quotes and apostrophe in my Style font, STYLE.TTF.
However, in testing that while writing this reply I have found that my Style font has them the wrong way round so that is something which I need to correct and issue an updated font! I shall try to check my other fonts too!
I have now corrected those errors and the new version of STYLE.TTF, namely version 0.14, has been available on the web since just before 9.10 am this morning, British Summer Time (that is, about 25 minutes before the posting of this note).
William