Checkbox suggestion for swash tails for g and y and Q etc
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:56 am
Could you please consider adding a checkbox to the font-producing section of Scanahand so as to provide a user-chooseable option in producing the font as follows.
If the checkbox is checked, then, just for the purposes of calculating the side-bearings of each glyph and the width of the space character, Scanahand does not take into account the x coordinate of any point for which the y coordinate is lower than a particular number of font units below the baseline. The particular number would be found in a textbox displayed next to the checkbox, the default value being something like -50.
This would have the advantage that sweeping tails could be added to characters such as g and y and Q without needing to use FontCreator to adjust the font after it has been produced.
William Overington
6 November 2008
If the checkbox is checked, then, just for the purposes of calculating the side-bearings of each glyph and the width of the space character, Scanahand does not take into account the x coordinate of any point for which the y coordinate is lower than a particular number of font units below the baseline. The particular number would be found in a textbox displayed next to the checkbox, the default value being something like -50.
This would have the advantage that sweeping tails could be added to characters such as g and y and Q without needing to use FontCreator to adjust the font after it has been produced.
William Overington
6 November 2008