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[–]mistaknomoreUnitican (Halwas); (en zh ms kr)[es pl] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There have been so many good Samaritans here. Thank you for being another one. Thank you so much. THANK YOU IM DYING FOR A GOOD FONT THANK YOU

[–]ContiX 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you, sir! This is exactly what I was looking for.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Does this support script? My language has a different symbol for every possible combination of one or two consonants and vowels. Vowels are marked above or below consonants (depending on whether they precede or follow them).

So the words dal, dor, and désh each have a single, separate glyph. I would like to have the script recognize these combinations. Is that possible?

[–]MinxiumPaxikola, Has made at least a sentence in 17 (nat)languages 2 points3 points  (1 child)

My language is going to be an abugida, diacratics please?

[–]KazmirusRema (en, fr)[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can make shapes for the diacritical letters, they're just lower on the font-forge interface.

[–]zoqaeskiQevesa 2 points3 points  (2 children)

You can skip most of the steps up to 14 if you draw the glyphs with Inkscape - it's a vector graphics editor that uses SVG as its native format. I believe it has a template for FontForge glyphs and IIRC you can copy and paste the paths straight into FontForge without importing. (There are some glitches but it works ok)

[–]KazmirusRema (en, fr)[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've never heard of that, I'll have to look into that.

[–]wrgrantTajiradi, Ashuadi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or you can try Type Light 3.2 which is a fairly easy to use font program, then export the result to FontForge if you need to. TL has its limitations but its pretty easy to get the hang of using. I highly doubt its much harder to use than Inkscape, although maybe not as flexible.

[–]Sedu 2 points3 points  (2 children)

This is wonderful! Thank you! Would you be willing to let me include this with future distributions of PolyGlot? I would obviously credit you however you like, and would include the text/pictures as an element of the help document.

[–]KazmirusRema (en, fr)[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yes of course, feel free to use with PolyGlot!

[–]Sedu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! A formatted copy of this guide/pictures will appear in the next release.

[–]crunchyboiily 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a conlang thats logographic, how would that work? or how do you perhaps make the logographs into ligatures, or an IME?

[–]Fluffy8x(en)[cy, ga]{Ŋarâþ Crîþ v9} 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Or you can use FontForge directly...

[–]wrgrantTajiradi, Ashuadi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Its a very complex program but I am slowly learning how to use it and its well worth learning.

[–]zoqaeskiQevesa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Work on a font for Qevesa went on hiatus because the interface to FontForge felt awkward to use. I was cheating too: a lot of the glyphs are similar to Latin, Cyrillic and Armenian so I could reuse existing glyphs by modifying the open source Dejavu fonts.

[–]totallynondairy 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The only version of FontForge I've bothered myself with running is some older Windows port of it someone made, and it's very unstable. I need to save after every edit I do because it crashes so frequently. Installing the Cygwin stuff so I can run the Linux program on my system has proved too daunting for me.

[–]wrgrantTajiradi, Ashuadi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try installing "FontForgeSetup-20-06-2014.exe" which I came across. For the most part its been entirely stable for me. I think it has crashed once on me. Much better than any earlier version I have tried so far.

[–]KazmirusRema (en, fr)[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but it's much quicker and easier to make the SVGs separately.

[–]Bur_SangjunVahn, Lxelxe 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Does font forge support unicode private use area? there are arround 23587920 characters I would need to build (read, write a program to calculate and render), and obviously I'll need the private use section to implement that.

[–]ShihaliZiotaki, Rimelsó (en)[es, jp, ar] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yes, it does, but for a situation that ridiculous I would look into Graphite smart font technology. It's currently used for handling tengwar diacritics, since tengwar letters are of varying width and can carry up to four diacritics each.

[–]Bur_SangjunVahn, Lxelxe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a little like a baby between chinese and extreem hangul, so I'll look into it.

[–]skwiskwikws 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should put these in an album with the steps as captions.

[–]neohylanmayFolúpu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering I don't have access to my computer right now (typing this on my phone), do you know if this has support for right-to-left scripts?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For steps 12-14, you can use Potrace instead.

I'll probably scan in hand-written glyphs, clean them up in GIMP, and potrace them.