my problem is this.. I am a newbie to font making and the tutorial you provide might as well be in Alien because I don’t understand it (I understand some not all).. it doesn’t explain step by step how to create a font… it MIGHT explain it clearly for all you people who already know all about fonts but for the average person, who knows nothing, it means nothing.. is there a tutorial or a place you can send me so I will understand it?.. I mean like the termology of it all? (or even better screenshots of what is what).. if I don’t understand what the words mean (that you use) then how can I understand the tutorial? do you have a step by step tutorial on this program? if not, do you have at least some kind of dictionary to the words your using? …
The manual could do with a glossary. This diagram might help a bit.
Glyph = a complete letter form Contour = one of several shapes that make up a letter. The glyph for an e has two contours. The outer clockwise contour is black. The inner anti-clockwise contour is white. Together, they make the e glyph. Character = a glyph in your font that has been assigned to a character position. For example, the glyph assigned to decimal codepoint 101 in most fonts is lowercase e. Codepoint = the position assigned to a glyph in your font Decimal = digital numbers, base 10 Hexadecimal = base 16 numbers. Decimal 101 = Hexadecimal 65 (6x16 = 96 plus 5x1 = 101). The decimal system uses 0123456789, the hexadecimal systems uses 0123456789ABCDEF
