Something which I have wondered about FontLab is as to whether it will produce OpenType fonts on its own or does one need to use the Microsoft VOLT software package as well?
I obtained the VOLT software some time ago and tried to produce some OpenType fonts using it, starting with fonts which I had produced using FontCreator.
It might be that I produced some perfectly good OpenType fonts, VOLT seems to indicate that I have. Yet I do not have any OpenType aware applications to test them. Specifically I tried to make the sequence ct become substituted in a display by a ct ligature glyph. I often add a ct ligature glyph at U+E707 in the Private Use Area in my fonts.
The attempt is documented in the following thread.
I still do not know if the font works.
If it does, then maybe using FontCreator as it stands followed by using VOLT is sufficient to produce at least some OpenType fonts.
William Overington
20 December 2007