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Re: TECH: Fonts (was Re: Various)

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Monday, October 11, 1999, 19:30
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Paul Bennett wrote:

> You just missed quite a conversation about fonts. There's no real free way, > (unless you're a programmer and can get hold of the TrueType specs) but the best > tools are at http://www.pyrus.com/ I have the FontLab and ScanFont programs, as > recommended to me by the list, the asking price is quite high, but they're truly > incredible. You could probably get by with just ScanFont, if you weren't fussy > and your script didn't use "clever" diacritics. You'll probably also need a > scanner, but that shouldn't break the bank. Or, as has been suggested in the > dim and distant past, you could get some free fax software for your modem > http://www.shareware.com/ and fax yourself the images you wish to turn into > fonts. >
You can make non-spacing characters with Scanfont quite easily, by simply moving the glyph before the 'origin'. Really clever accents (changing form in ligatures f.i.) can't easily be done - but I think that that's a limitation of the TrueType font format. Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt