I’m working on converting an old music font to SMuFL, and I’m having a hard time getting anchor points on the notehead. Without them, you can see that the stems are not aligned to the outside edge of the notehead:
The .oft file requires an accompanying JSON, which is generated from a UFO file on completion of the font. The JSON contains the data for the font to interface with the notation software. The anchor points on the notehead are specified here. Specifically, the ones I need are “stemUpSE” and “stemDownNW.”
I tried creating anchor points in FontCreator, but clearly I don’t know what I’m doing there. Here’s all I was able to create, “cursive”:
No answer for you, but following because I’m holding off on converting Revere (which I re-worked for Finale a decade ago) to SMuFL. When you’re done, if you could outline your steps for doing this and the software you used, I’d be grateful. It might be beyond me, but I’m always hoping.
Thanks for reaching out. I’m afraid this isn’t really my area of expertise, as FontCreator doesn’t have built-in support for the SMuFL standard or its JSON metadata. While you can add anchors in FontCreator, those will mainly be useful for OpenType layout features inside the font itself. I don’t know if you can use those anchors for your purpose, as the SMuFL-specific anchors need to be defined in the JSON file that works alongside your font.
You’ll likely get further by asking in communities that focus specifically on music notation fonts, since they’ll know the workflow in detail.
Sorry I can’t be of more help here, but I wish you success with the conversion!
