Re: Omurax script

  Well, it's not free, but I do own a copy of fontographer, which can deal with
hinting, keerning, and right-to-left fonts. And Word can be formatted to handle
the "reverse" font as well. This is why I offered to help!

  Aidan



Quoting Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>:

> On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 18:12:53 -0500, Aidan Grey <grey@...> wrote:
>
> >I like, I like! Do you ever plan on creating a font for them? I could
> help...
>
>  I've given up on creating fonts. All my best stuff is on paper, and there
> are no free font creating programs that allow one to do a half-decent job.
> I created a typeface for Rhean (nicely bleak and second-world industrial
> looking), which turned out looking like garbage unless typed in banner
> headline size.
>  Turns out there's this thing called "hinting", where you can make seperate
> shapes for different font sizes so your letters will look okay when
> resized. But, using a program like Font Creator Program, if you even touch
> a glyph in a commercial typeface this "hinting" data disappears, leaving
> your fonts looking all irregular at the smaller sizes. There seems to be no
> way to create your own hinting to avoid this.
>  Show me a program that does otherwise, and I'll make a font for Omurax.
>
> M
>
> P.S. There's also the problem of Omurax being written right to left. I'd
> need a Hebrew or Arabic word processor.
>