Placing Diacritical Marks on the Side of Characters.
Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:59 am
This topic is related to my previous post about inserting diacritical marks to characters, but I thought it would be appropriate that I start another topic anew concerning placing diacritical marks on the left and/or sides of characters. I already figured out how to create "combining diacritical marks" where you press a key to type in the character and you press another key and a diacritical mark is inserted on the top or bottom of the character. However, I run into a problem when I try to insert a diacritical mark on the left side of a character. When I go to type this on the test font, the diacritical mark gets swallowed up by the characters -- it gets placed in the same space as the character. Here's a couple of images to illustrate what I'm trying to say here:
The image below is a Devanagari font from the Microsoft Keyboard Layout. The diacritical mark is colored-coded red. Notice that the red diacritical marks are in the correct positions. However........
.....in this picture, the red diacritical marks are misaligned. This is when I was trying to recreate it in FontCreator and when I went to test it out on the testfont, I couldn't get the same results I saw in Microsoft Keyboard Layout.
So my question is: how do you get the diacritical marks placed in the correct positions like in the first picture while I'm typing them out?
The image below is a Devanagari font from the Microsoft Keyboard Layout. The diacritical mark is colored-coded red. Notice that the red diacritical marks are in the correct positions. However........
.....in this picture, the red diacritical marks are misaligned. This is when I was trying to recreate it in FontCreator and when I went to test it out on the testfont, I couldn't get the same results I saw in Microsoft Keyboard Layout.
So my question is: how do you get the diacritical marks placed in the correct positions like in the first picture while I'm typing them out?