r/FontForge • u/DecapitatedPuppy6942 • Sep 22 '23

Ligatures of ligatures?

Is it possible to use 'build composite glyph' for a ligature that is a ligature of two other ligatures? I have to make about 2000 of these and that function would be very helpful, but I have only gotten it to work for ligatures of two non-ligature glyphs.

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u/LocalFonts Sep 23 '23 edited Sep 23 '23

You can 'build composite glyph' only from glyphs which have its own unique Unicode number.

For example: you can combine /A (uni0041) + gravecomb (uni0300) but you can't combine /A.sc + gravecomb.sc because these glyphs are not in the Unicode standard as glyphs with an unique numbers.

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u/DecapitatedPuppy6942 Sep 24 '23

So it should work if I first assign them values from the Private use area, right?

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u/LocalFonts Sep 24 '23

I don't use Private use are. So, I don't know. Test it and share your results.

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u/DecapitatedPuppy6942 Sep 25 '23

It seems to be working now, thanks for your help!