How can I rearrange the order of the glyphs (equivalent to assigning new glyph indices, I imagine…) so that I can organize them visually the way I want in the Glyph Overview Window? All I see is the standard “Sort” option. I even tried inserting new empty glyphs at the desired location and copying glyphs to that spot, but it does not always work (e.g. see separate question: copying composites.)
Or, should I not be reorganizing the glyphs for some reason?
Thanks
Hello rolfengelbrecht,
I too had yearned to change the sequence of glyphs to an order I felt more rational. I too found no solution, so I learned to live with it!
After awhile the consistent randomness of the presentation becomes familiar and you begin to see patterns: …, 0-9, …, A-Z, …, a-z, and all the others. You learn how to quickly scan for special characters, diacritics and composites. (The character color coding, red, blue, and green in fact helps a great deal!)
When you make changes to a font it is fun to put new characters wherever you want knowing sort would possibly move them around anyway. I am sympathetic but without hope!
Luckily I only have to deal with 255 characters.
Dick Pape
Thanks for the sympathy, Dick! By the way, as you may already know, there is a font editor out there (FontLab) that allows very nicely for moving glyphs around, including ultra convenient drag-and-drop, as well as sorting by a variety of packaged sorts (various mappings, etc.) But, it is mega priced at around $500, which I am not willing to spring for. That’s exactly why I was so glad to find Font Creator (powerful enough in all the basics, at a great price!). I did try using the demo version of FontLab to reorganize my fonts, planning to then bring them back into Font Creator, but the FontLab export/save function is crippled in the demo version (adds a destructive FontLab logo to all but 20 of the glyphs.) I also tried the demo version of FontLab’s more entry level version (TypeTool), which I thought I might be willing to pay $99 for, but alas, it seems the glyph moving feature is not even included in TypeTool. If you ever hear of an affordable font editor that allows moving fonts around, please let me know. Thanks. Rolf