Prakash Harchandani of India asked:
I downloaded evolution ver. of Font Creator 5.0 from high-logic.com. For a particular gujarati character say, ‘T’, I want to assign combination of keys t+h+a. How can I do this? Please reply at earliest possible. I am totally new to font designing.
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I think you need to use Open Type features, which Font Creator doesn’t support. There is a free tool called VOLT available from Microsoft Developers but it is not for beginners. You have a lot of basic stuff to learn first.
Perhaps what you need can be done by customising Word’s autocorrect feature.
I think you need to use Open Type features, which Font Creator doesn’t support.
I got the impression that the question is not about OpenType at all, but that the enquirer wants to use a font which supports the script used for Gujarati and to enter some text into a computer which uses an English keyboard, that is, has Latin script keys.
I had a look at the http://www.unicode.org webspace and found that Gujurati has its own script.
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0A80.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch09.pdf
I know only a little about Indian Scripts. In Unicode, it is possible that an OpenType or another advanced font rendering system with glyph substitution may be desirable, yet may not be essential as ligature formation may not be essential and the matter of U+0ABF being rendered before the character which it follows in text order may perhaps be accomplished by the system by glyph reordering.
So, it may perhaps be that a basic display of Gujurati does not need an OpenType font. Can you ask the enquirer about whether the enquirer has a font already please and perhaps try to clarify whether the enquirer is in fact trying to key text using an English keyboard please?
Once we can establish the question we may be able to help, perhaps by referring the enquirer to somewhere else, such as the Unicode consortium, whose reporting form is on the following web page.
http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html
I hope that this helps.
William Overington