Re: Conlang letters

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Carsten Becker
> This is not very comfortable though I think. You might want
> to have a look at Fontforge¹, which is what I use for font
> editing. That, plus a vector graphics program of your choice,
> since drawing in there and importing things into Fontforge
> afterwards seems easier to me than drawing things directly in
> Fontforge.
I had this for a while but being a Linux program, it's kind of a hassle
getting it to work under Windless.  It does work with Cygwin though.  I have
yet to try it with andLinux or CoLinux.

> ¹) http://fontforge.sourceforge.net, or, if you're on Ubuntu,
> call _sudo aptitude install fontforge_ in a terminal. That
> isn't the most recent version however, as usual.
I just look packages up in Synaptic and install from there.  It's easier.

Font creation isn't that easy though.  The better font packages require some
knowledge of fontmaking and computer encodings.  The MS tool may be a better
choice for a beginner even if it's not very powerful or flexible.