Hungarian font problem

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I modified the Glyph Transform script to add combining ogonek, combining cedilla, combining double acute, etc., by editing the first Insert Characters part of the script.

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Code: Select all

567, 699, 700, 710, 711, 713-715, 717, 728, 759, 768-789, 803-808, 817, 7838

I modified the third part of the script to use Anchor-based Complete Composites instead of CompositeData based composition.

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This left a few composites empty, such as Dcroat, but one can just use Complete Composites with CompositeData on those later.

The anchors were added wherever needed, as shown in this example of u double acute.

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The TTF font that I started with was an ancient Bitstream font from WordPerfect, which had no anchors, no combining diacritical marks, and no OpenType features apart from kerning, but it did have some of the required glyph modifier accents.

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The transform script needs some further refinement, but it does the job well enough for me.

[mykee]

Great thanks for help!
I found a solution by your steps:
- created a new script based on your description, ran it first
- in the second step I selected Empty Composite characters on root, and Complete Composites -> Composite data
- in the third step I selected the Composite characters on root, and Complete Composites -> Anchor based
- in the fourth step I selected Composite characters on root again, and Complete Composites -> Auto
- in the fifth step I only had to specify the position of the doubleacutecomb
and done!

I couldn't automate this with a script, because there is no step to select only the newly added characters, but this should do the extension.

Many, many thanks for great help, tutorials, and your time!

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I couldn't automate this with a script, because there is no step to select only the newly added characters, but this should do the extension.

See my first screenshot: Apply subsequent features to the new characters (will override range)

[mykee]

Thank you, I updated my steps above, because after running the script I have to replace the Empty Composite characters first, then the anchor based attachment for all composites, finally the accents are almost perfectly placed with the Auto setting.

[mykee]

I found a trick to restore the accents more accurately. In the Eastern Europe script, you have to put the doubleacutecomb character in the first composite group, and then you get the anchor correctly in the second composite. I have attached the pure Hungarian script, which works for me, and you don't have to do the multiple composite step afterwards.
If the accents do slip, you must select a Composite Data menu on the Empy characters and they will be restored.

Update1:
I have modified the script (it became Hungarian only.xml). I also added a note, because some fonts are missing the dieresis (code-points: 168) and acomb (code-points: 180) characters.
In such cases, the following steps should be taken:
- insert the characters 168 and 180
- create the two new characters
- run the Hungarian only.xml script
- select them all in the Composite group and select Composite Data
- Select all in Composite group and Anchor Based
- change the position of the acutecomb, doubleacutecomb and doubleacutemod if necessary