Composite glyphs vs Simple glyphs

[Julian Griffin]

Hi,

I have made extensive use of Composite glyphs. I have even chained Composite glyphs {A←B←C←D}.
It works very well, as an improvement to a base glyph is automatically reflected in the chained Composite glyphs.

And so to my question:

• Should I convert all Composite glyphs to Simple glyphs before I export to an installable font? Or does it not matter?

Thank you, Julian.

[Erwin Denissen]

No need to convert them to simple glyphs.

Although we can't confirm it, one exception might be if you have used one of the following glyph member properties: Scale, Rotation, Transformation.

[Julian Griffin]

Hi,

Thank you Erwin for your response.

For the vast majority of my composite glyphs the position is changed and are scaled to 0.6667.

I think what I will do is keep them as composite glyphs; as the Bold Transform works better if the components are kept separate. I can always reopen the exported font and simplify the glyphs then.

Thank you for your help.
How the world has changed since I was designing 5x7 fonts back in the 1970s.
Regards Julian.