![]() The Medieval Unicode Font Initiative made several proposals, but I think most haven't been accepted yet. The longs ligatures for historical ligatures are mapped to the Private Use Area.If you have the Pro version, use the Glyph Transformation script for "Ligature Collection." If not, just paste this into the Insert Characters dialogue: $EEC5, $EEC8-$EED0, $EED9-$EEDC, $FB00-$FB06 (61125, 61128-61136, 61145-61148, 64256-64262 decimal code-points).longs might use lowercase f as a starting point, so you just delete the extending arm to make it look like a longs. Afterwards, you can generate some glyphs using Complete Composites, e.g. New glyphs are created that use the chosen characters' mappings and glyph names. This should be one like MS Unicode that contains as many mapped characters as possible so that you can choose them visually without knowing the code-points. The Insert Character dialog lets you use a display font.I'm amazed that there's no tutorial - for dummies, no less - on how to do this.Ĭan anyone please help? Thanks so much, in advance! I feel so stupid, that I can't seem to figure this out on my own (let alone searching the forums here - not to mention google - seems to be of no avail). How do I go about adding them in? I also have one (perhaps more to come) ligature that doesn't exist in any other font that I have - rr (where one r looks different) - and I'm clueless where/how to insert that one. I did find the slots for certain ligatures - for example, fi, ffi, ij - but with this being an old blackletter-style font, the use of the long-s is VERY important, and I have a bunch of additional ligatures for that. Is there no standardized list of characters that can be inserted into a font? Why is it based on a pre-existing font? Like, it asks you to choose another font to grab a character from - huh? I don't get that. I don't understand the "insert character" dialog box. ![]() I'm so confused about where, and how, to insert several ligatures that I have - never mind doing the lookups for them (which I used to do in FontForge), I'm not even at that point yet, all I want to do is insert a few extra characters. It's only just in the last couple of weeks that I thought I'd take another stab at it and see if I could finally get it finished, and upgraded to the latest version of FC (v. but then eventually backburnered it once again. I put it aside, and then about a decade or so ago, I started working on it again in FontCreator (v. I feel like such a moron! On the one hand, I know WAY more about type design than the average non-typophile, and yet compared to most type designers out there I feel like I know next to nothing at all.Ībout 15 years ago, I started designing a blackletter font in Fontographer - which, of course, eventually went caput.
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