> 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 |