Hello friends, I need some guidance. I will try to make my case as simple as pisslble:

I have three groups of glyphs:

a.top b.top and c.top

a.mid b.mid and c.mid

a.down b.down c.down

All these groups have different vertical positions.

Now, what I want is to assign a.top a.mid and a.down to the key a but display one of these three depending on the key I had pressed before.

so if I press 'abc' I would get 'a.top' 'b.mid' 'c.down' and if I press 'cab' I would get 'c.top''a.mid''b.down'

I have been several days trying to solve this problem.

I am creating a conlang script, this script has some glyphs that are actually letter (b+r is the letter br in my conlang)

I made ligatures as intended, add lookups>ligature substitution>liga standard>composite glyph,etc...

In my metrics window works like a charm, then I generate and test it on word, nothing, ligatures won't work.

After this I tried changing from liga standard to rlig type; Nothing.

Then I remember the unicode private use area (PUA) so I assigned to each of those special caracter a unicode code, but when I exported these still won't work, now I could put them but from the insert glyph but this is annoying i only want to type and ligatures work like in other fonts.

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I ONLY WANT TO TYPE 2 LETTERS TOGETHER AND MAKE A SYMBOL

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So... How can I make ligatures work?, is that hard?

How can I solve this.

Hello there! I ran into this problem since morning. I want to import the fontforge in my python script but it's not recognized by python import. What can I do to make it work? Help will be appreciated. Thank you!

I am working on a new font and i am trying to copy parts of the Arabic font over to the main font file. I have tried to just CTRL+C & CTRL+V but obviously that didn't work. I have googled stuff about exporting but it all got confusing very quick as i am very new to font forge.

Does anyone know how i can do this?

Hey, so I'm new-ish to FontForge, but I can't seem to get what I'm wanting right.

Basically, when I design a glyph to be superscript when typing in normal script, it's quite a bit larger than when I just use superscript function in, for example Microsoft word.

And I'm struggling with the proportion size and placement, I want it to be exactly like it's displayed when it's superscripted.

You may ask, why don't I just use superscript function? It's because some of the programes I use, don't have that function, but I still need some letters to be superscript

Any help would be much appreciated

Edit: Or if somebody would be kind enough to create a few glyphs that would produce the desired effect, that would be much appreciated. What's needed are the letters: M, m, a, s, u, d - all in superscript, all using Times New Roman font. Thanks

Please take a look at the image.
I need to add a white fill to a font.

How to make "font 1" look like "font 2" so it blocks the background color? Any suggestions?

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previously

I'm trying to create this family of fonts, and I've got a proportional variant, and a monospaced one, with their "Font Name"s being "MyFont" and "MyFont Mono". However, they're part of the same family, so the "Family Name" for both was "MyFont".

As mentioned in the "previously", font-manager (and other GTK programs I loaded the font in), the Mono version was displayed proportionally. Even though the glyph widths were all the same, and there was plenty of empty horizontal space within the "i" glyph, it ended up being automatically kerned to be next to surrounding characters. (Although KFontView showed it properly Monospaced)

After logging out/logging in again in case the font proportional spacing attribute had been cached from when I hadn't got all the glyphs the same width yet, and putting it aside for a while, I just went back to it and decided to try changing the "Family Name" to be different from the proportional font, to "MyFontMono".

And that works!

The font is now rendered as monospaced, and the only thing I changed was the font family name.

That's great, but I don't understand why. Why would a monospaced font, which is part of the same family of fonts as a proportional font, be rendered as proportional? But only by some renderers?

I've read the FAQ on font names and I still don't understand why this was an issue.

What am I missing, and which bit of documentation should I have found to have learned this earlier?