Re: Omurax script

En réponse à Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>:

>  Show me a program that does otherwise, and I'll make a font for
> Omurax.
>
Check out Fontlab (http://www.fontlab.com/html/fontlab.html). It's a commercial
product but has a free demo version which is only slightly limited (IIRC, it
allows you to save fonts with "only" as much as 1000 characters. So unless your
script is ideographic, the limitation is nearly nothing ;)) ). It also has
limitations in the use of macros IIRC, but that is not much of a limitation
either. And Fontlab handles hinting quite well (even automatic hinting is of
good quality, although it works only for Type 1 fonts - but it has a converter
from Type 1 to True Type hinting, so you can work around this limitation
easily -).

But as Teoh indicated, you may be interested in METAFONT and the latex-for-
conlangers group ;))) .

>
> P.S. There's also the problem of Omurax being written right to left.
> I'd
> need a Hebrew or Arabic word processor.
>
Doesn't Word handle right-to-left scripts? If not, there are quite a few free
programs out there which handle right-to-left scripts easily.

Christophe.

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