[XeTeX] Font Development

[Andrew Moschou]

For some of the fonts I'm designing now, each of the glyphs are required to
be doubly encoded. FontForge can't do this. I got around it by copying the
glyph into the second slot, but I'd prefer not to do that.

Andrew


2010/1/8 Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropoulos at yahoo.com>

> >I've been doing all sorts of complex OpenType layout for Arabic script
> >using solely FontForge, I sometimes use Inkscape to draw glyphs from
> >scratch, I find FontForge far better for later editing of the glyphs.
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> Agreed. In fact I think FontForge beats FontLab in almost every feature.
> And of course  it is freely available while FontLab costs a fortune! As
> about
> VOLT, do not forget to register a million times and of course it
> understands
> only TrueType fonts ( remember: no one  needs CFF OpenType fonts ;-) ).
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> A.S.
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