I have just added another experimental OpenType font to the web.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/SONNETQ.TTF
I have also added the development version of the font which would not normally be published. I have done this so that readers may study my ligature table using VOLT or WordPad if they so choose.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/SONNETQ0.TTF
The font is named Sonnet to Renaissance Lady Q. It started as a copy of my Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font. The a and a space were removed from the name so that adding space and Q at the end did not make the font name longer than 28 characters which I seem to think from somewhere in the back of my mind is the limit, though I am unsure as to whether that it the case, yet I took the precaution just in case.
The original font is available using this link.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/SONNETRL.TTF
The font has its own thread in the Gallery forum of this webspace.
There are also some notes about the font on the following web page.
The Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font contains some alternate glyphs, including some alternate glyphs for ligatures, mapped into a font-specific type tray from U+E421 upwards. The decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal value E421 is 58401.
The type tray may be thought of as a convenient way of storing glyph artwork for possible future use in an OpenType font whilst allowing the glyphs to be directly accessed using the non-OpenType version of the font.
In order to support research, the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font, from version 0.18, has zero width glyphs in U+EF01 to U+EF07 and also, in fact, in U+EF00, in case it becomes needed during the research.
I also wrote the following paragraph.
The font, Alternate Glyph Selectors V, has a name shortened from Alternate Glyph Selectors Visible. In order to support research, this font has visible glyphs in U+EF01 to U+EF07 and also, in fact, in U+EF00, in case it becomes needed during the research. The idea is that if someone produces an OpenType version of the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font such that, for example, the sequence g U+EF01 substitutes the alternate g glyph which is presently accessible at U+E421 in the font, then this Alternate Glyph Selectors V font could be used for setting up the U+EF01 character in a document: the font in which the text is displayed then all being changed to Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady. This is research using Private Use Area characters. If alternate glyph selectors work and provide benefits, then maybe a proposal to include them in regular Unicode can be prepared and submitted, perhaps with the suggestion that they be located in plane 10.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/AVISIBLE.TTF
The following thread may be of interest as well in relation to my idea for Alternate Glyph Selectors.
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2006/05/eliminate_priva.html
So, here is a chance for readers with access to InDesign to find out whether Alternate Glyph Selectors will work in InDesign.
Feedback would be appreciated please.
William Overington
23 March 2007