My test window was working just fine, and when I exported to OTF the characters were behaving as they should. Just now, I clicked F5 to preview a new character, but it won’t generate any characters beyond what’s mapped to the uppercase letters. Beyond that, the new characters look as if I’d just retyped the alphabet. The newly created characters show up just fine in the Overview window; I’m attaching a capture with the Overview characters and their associated Test Window characters side by side.
When I export the font, I get the same result. I thought rebooting would help, but it didn’t.
Its been a long day, but I haven’t a clue what you mean, or why the screen shot looks like that. If you can attach the FontCreator Project file, I might be able to see what’s happening.
Thanks, Erwin – I took your advice, but it didn’t help. Bhikkhu, I’m attaching the FCP file. (You’ll see that I’m an utter novice.) My method, which was working fine up until I created the last combined character, was to use glyphs from an established font as the basis for creating combined glyphs. After each character I hit F5, and saw a perfect preview of all the characters to that point. I exported the font a couple of times, installed it, and tried the characters in Word; all of them – whether basic or combined – appeared perfectly onscreen and printed exactly as they appeared in the FontCreator Overview. Then, blam – the test window and the exported font both failed. Maybe I should just start over? MexicoMintmarks.fcp (8.77 KB)
Nothing fancy, just combinations of existing characters that can be done with a single keystroke. A regular capital letter with a superscript next to it doesn’t require a special font, obviously; but some of the superscripts will have special characters below them, and some of the letters will be nested – for example, a capital O with a smaller capital A inside it. Those are the ones I’m really hoping to make.
You haven’t created glyphs for most of the lowercase yet, and none for the digits. You have deleted the lowercase “f” character, so you should add that back from the Insert Characters dialogue.
