Localizable Sentences Experiment font support
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:51 am
Supplementary note of 16 March 2012
This thread was started on 17 April 2009, over two and a half years before the time of the writing of this supplementary note.
FontCreator is being used to produce fonts to support research about developing an invention. The invention is a method to assist communication through the language barrier.
Over that time period there has been progress.
In order to gain an overview of the state of the research at the time of the writing of this supplementary note, readers might like first to read the following pdf documents.
The original text of an earlier supplementary note, unaltered, and the original text of the post of 17 April 2009, unaltered, follows, so that the historical record is conserved.
William Overington
16 March 2012
End of Supplementary note of 16 March 2012
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Supplementary note of 7 December 2011
This thread was started on 17 April 2009, over two and a half years before the time of the writing of this supplementary note.
FontCreator is being used to produce fonts to support research about developing an invention. The invention is a method to assist communication through the language barrier.
Over that time period there has been progress.
In order to gain an overview of the state of the research at the time of the writing of this supplementary note, readers might like first to read the following pdf document.
The original text of the post of 17 April 2009, unaltered, follows, so that the historical record is conserved.
William Overington
7 December 2011
End of Supplementary note of 7 December 2011
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Some readers may have noticed the following posts in the archives of the Unicode Public Email List.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0135.html
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0134.html
There are some other posts in the thread in the archive.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... index.html
The experiment thus far involves the use of the U+F9001 character, which is a Private Use Area character located in plane 15 of the Unicode code map.
This morning I have produced a font to support the experiment.
The font has a basic alphabet, digits and some punctuation. These are copied from my Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font. I added a glyph for a + sign.
In addition the font has a glyph mapped to U+F9001. The glyph states the code point of the character, using U+f9001 as the design of the glyph.
Here is a transcript of the notes that I made while I produced the font.
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Start a new font using FontCreator 5.6.
Name as Localizable Sentences 001
Add an additional cell at the end.
Add the Microsoft UCS-4 platform through the Platform Manager (Format -> Platform Manager) by selecting Microsoft Unicode Full-repertoire choosing the option button Copy from Microsoft Unicode BMP only and OK.
Then use Format Mappings... Microsoft Unicode full repertoire, note that Segmented coverage is displayed, highlight the glyph at the end of the list, enter $F9001 in the Value box and click Add and then click OK.
In the Glyph Overview window, right click on the glyph and check the mapping.
Now update the range settings on the Ranges page on the Font Settings window (Format -> Settings). Here set the Contents and Layout version to 3: then select the 'Edit' button within the Unicode Character Ranges area. Check 'Non-Plane 0 - implies that...' and check 'Private Use (plane 15) and Private Use (plane 16)' and press the 'OK' button.
Format Post... Generate Names OK.
Validate the font.
Change the metrics to be 2048, 0, -1024
Set the width of the space and the nonmarkingreturn glyphs to 512 font units as in the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font.
Copy .notdef and basic alphabets and digits and punctuation from the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font.
Add U+201B and U+201F into the smart quotes and then copy all eight smart quotes from the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font.
Produce a glyph for + by adapting a copy of 4.
Make a glyph illustrating U+f9001 to place in the U+F9001 cell.
Validate the font.
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Here is an attachment of the test file that contains the U+F9001 character. It was produced using Microsoft WordPad by saving as a Unicode Text Document.
Here is an attachment of the font.
The font is also available directly from our family webspace.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/LOCSE001.TTF
William Overington
17 April 2009
This thread was started on 17 April 2009, over two and a half years before the time of the writing of this supplementary note.
FontCreator is being used to produce fonts to support research about developing an invention. The invention is a method to assist communication through the language barrier.
Over that time period there has been progress.
In order to gain an overview of the state of the research at the time of the writing of this supplementary note, readers might like first to read the following pdf documents.
The original text of an earlier supplementary note, unaltered, and the original text of the post of 17 April 2009, unaltered, follows, so that the historical record is conserved.
William Overington
16 March 2012
End of Supplementary note of 16 March 2012
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Supplementary note of 7 December 2011
This thread was started on 17 April 2009, over two and a half years before the time of the writing of this supplementary note.
FontCreator is being used to produce fonts to support research about developing an invention. The invention is a method to assist communication through the language barrier.
Over that time period there has been progress.
In order to gain an overview of the state of the research at the time of the writing of this supplementary note, readers might like first to read the following pdf document.
The original text of the post of 17 April 2009, unaltered, follows, so that the historical record is conserved.
William Overington
7 December 2011
End of Supplementary note of 7 December 2011
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Some readers may have noticed the following posts in the archives of the Unicode Public Email List.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0135.html
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0134.html
There are some other posts in the thread in the archive.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... index.html
The experiment thus far involves the use of the U+F9001 character, which is a Private Use Area character located in plane 15 of the Unicode code map.
This morning I have produced a font to support the experiment.
The font has a basic alphabet, digits and some punctuation. These are copied from my Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font. I added a glyph for a + sign.
In addition the font has a glyph mapped to U+F9001. The glyph states the code point of the character, using U+f9001 as the design of the glyph.
Here is a transcript of the notes that I made while I produced the font.
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Start a new font using FontCreator 5.6.
Name as Localizable Sentences 001
Add an additional cell at the end.
Add the Microsoft UCS-4 platform through the Platform Manager (Format -> Platform Manager) by selecting Microsoft Unicode Full-repertoire choosing the option button Copy from Microsoft Unicode BMP only and OK.
Then use Format Mappings... Microsoft Unicode full repertoire, note that Segmented coverage is displayed, highlight the glyph at the end of the list, enter $F9001 in the Value box and click Add and then click OK.
In the Glyph Overview window, right click on the glyph and check the mapping.
Now update the range settings on the Ranges page on the Font Settings window (Format -> Settings). Here set the Contents and Layout version to 3: then select the 'Edit' button within the Unicode Character Ranges area. Check 'Non-Plane 0 - implies that...' and check 'Private Use (plane 15) and Private Use (plane 16)' and press the 'OK' button.
Format Post... Generate Names OK.
Validate the font.
Change the metrics to be 2048, 0, -1024
Set the width of the space and the nonmarkingreturn glyphs to 512 font units as in the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font.
Copy .notdef and basic alphabets and digits and punctuation from the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font.
Add U+201B and U+201F into the smart quotes and then copy all eight smart quotes from the Sonnet to a Renaissance Lady font.
Produce a glyph for + by adapting a copy of 4.
Make a glyph illustrating U+f9001 to place in the U+F9001 cell.
Validate the font.
----
Here is an attachment of the test file that contains the U+F9001 character. It was produced using Microsoft WordPad by saving as a Unicode Text Document.
Here is an attachment of the font.
The font is also available directly from our family webspace.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/LOCSE001.TTF
William Overington
17 April 2009