Poetry
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:45 am
I have now produced the Poetry font, version 0.18.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/POETRY.TTF
Supplementary note of 1 September 2008.
The problem about the lack of a Macintosh Roman platform in the font has now been circumvented and the above link now supplies the new font, version 0.181.
However, the file containing the version 0.18 font has been renamed as POETRY0180.TTF and is available from the following link in case anyone would like to study the problem.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/POETRY0180.TTF
End of supplementary note.
This font was designed and produced using FontStruct.
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com
It was then processed using FontCreator 5.6.
In fact, the font is a combination of glyphs from four fonts. The four fonts were all various versions of the poetry font series made at FontStruct, each of which had been individually processed using FontCreator 5.6. One of the fonts included alternate glyphs, one included long s ligatures and one included digits. The fourth font had the proper glyphs for places where f ligatures had been in previous versions.
FontCreator 5.6 was used to add glyphs in the Private Use Area and in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms section and to copy glyphs from font to font.
There are some alternate ending glyphs, for which the mappings are in the following thread, though not all of the items in the list are implemented in the font.
viewtopic.php?t=2294
In addition there is a Qu ligature implemented at U+E32E, which is Alt 58158.
This is not an OpenType font, yet may perhaps be useful as a font with which to learn about converting to OpenType as the font has glyphs for various standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, historical ligatures and alternates.
The font does not have at present many accented characters, in fact there are just the accented characters needed for Esperanto and also e grave, e acute and e circumflex.
One thing the font does not appear to have is Macintosh Roman mappings. In fact, I copied glyphs over from my Quest text font using Paste Special so as to have the mappings and postscript names. In particular I copied fi and fl (as in the (now deprecated) Microsoft Private Use Area mappings) and placed them before other Private Use Area cells specifically so that the Macintosh Roman mapping would not be out-of-range. Maybe I need to start with a File New font in FontCreator and copy glyphs across. However, is it possible to correct the font directly using FontCreator please?
Hopefully the font will be of interest in relation to the fact that it was produced using the FontStruct facility, of which facility I first learned in a High-Logic forum post.
viewtopic.php?t=2219
William Overington
30 August 2008
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/POETRY.TTF
Supplementary note of 1 September 2008.
The problem about the lack of a Macintosh Roman platform in the font has now been circumvented and the above link now supplies the new font, version 0.181.
However, the file containing the version 0.18 font has been renamed as POETRY0180.TTF and is available from the following link in case anyone would like to study the problem.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/POETRY0180.TTF
End of supplementary note.
This font was designed and produced using FontStruct.
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com
It was then processed using FontCreator 5.6.
In fact, the font is a combination of glyphs from four fonts. The four fonts were all various versions of the poetry font series made at FontStruct, each of which had been individually processed using FontCreator 5.6. One of the fonts included alternate glyphs, one included long s ligatures and one included digits. The fourth font had the proper glyphs for places where f ligatures had been in previous versions.
FontCreator 5.6 was used to add glyphs in the Private Use Area and in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms section and to copy glyphs from font to font.
There are some alternate ending glyphs, for which the mappings are in the following thread, though not all of the items in the list are implemented in the font.
viewtopic.php?t=2294
In addition there is a Qu ligature implemented at U+E32E, which is Alt 58158.
This is not an OpenType font, yet may perhaps be useful as a font with which to learn about converting to OpenType as the font has glyphs for various standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, historical ligatures and alternates.
The font does not have at present many accented characters, in fact there are just the accented characters needed for Esperanto and also e grave, e acute and e circumflex.
One thing the font does not appear to have is Macintosh Roman mappings. In fact, I copied glyphs over from my Quest text font using Paste Special so as to have the mappings and postscript names. In particular I copied fi and fl (as in the (now deprecated) Microsoft Private Use Area mappings) and placed them before other Private Use Area cells specifically so that the Macintosh Roman mapping would not be out-of-range. Maybe I need to start with a File New font in FontCreator and copy glyphs across. However, is it possible to correct the font directly using FontCreator please?
Hopefully the font will be of interest in relation to the fact that it was produced using the FontStruct facility, of which facility I first learned in a High-Logic forum post.
viewtopic.php?t=2219
William Overington
30 August 2008