Hello,
I’m a hobbyist user and found the High-Logic Font Creator on the web. I thought the program looks good and the price is affordable.
What I want to do might look somewhat weird, that’s why I’ll provide some background information on my idea 
Recently I created a syllibary script consisting of about 200 ideographs required to describe “Swiss German Language” – Swiss isn’t a real language actually, but a highly specialized dialect of the German language, which other German-speaking people usually don’t understand. Therefore, no spelling rules or whatever exists, as Swiss is written in standard High-German. My script is being used as some kind of “secret font”
The ideographs look like the ones known from Japanese (hiragana, katakana and non-complex kanji) as well as a few new glyphs I added according my own “rules”. The script isn’t too difficult to learn, since most ideographs are combinations of base glyphs (something like Radicals).
To “digitalize” my script I drew every ideograph using a pencil tablet into a single bitmap, all of these are of the same size. Then I wrote a simple program that translates some Swiss text written in Latin Letters according some rules and draws the ideographs on screen. I guess that’s something like a bitmap based font as seen 20 years ago before PostScript, TrueType and all that have become a more better standard As you can probably imagine, the quality of the result isn’t that great, because the bitmaps need to be scaled to draw the glyphs in different sizes and the technical possibilities are limited – the only way to use that text is to export it as an image via clipboard into other applications such as Microsoft Word.
The better solution might be to create a symbolic (I guess) TTF font, which is then fully supported by any TTF-compliant application. So that brings me to the following questions:
- is it possible to encode a font that does not actually exist using the TTF-Format (and the High-Logic Font Creator) ?
- How could the glyphs be “typed” if there’s no such “native” (hardware) keyboard ? One solution might be to use the symbolic table of Microsoft Word, but then it probably takes 2 days to write a simple letter…That’s why I think the better solution would be to use the TTF-Font file in a self-made program that can select the appropriate glyphs automatically and then saves a common file which is afterwards used in Microsoft Word.
Thanks for your answer.
Roger