[XeTeX] Font Development

[Peter Baker]

Vafa,

I don't know much about metafont, but if you want a programming rather 
than a graphical approach to font design, both FontForge and FontLab 
have powerful scripting capabilities (in Python). George Williams will 
very likely add further Python methods to FontForge if you need them. 
You might also look into UFO (Unified Font Object), which represents a 
font in XML, and RoboFab, which augments the Python scripting of FontLab 
and (to a lesser extent) FontForge. For TrueType hints you can either 
learn the assembly-like TrueType instruction set or my XML-based 
Xgridfit hinting language; FontLab and a Microsoft tool (name?) offer a 
graphical way to make TrueType hints.

Peter



Vafa Khalighi wrote:
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> Thanks Adam
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> Is not there any program like metafont for making opentype fonts? I 
> honestly can not work with WYSIWYG.
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> Best wishes,
> Vafa Khalighi
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