From: Gé v. G. <gev...@gm...> - 2010-06-19 20:05:08
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Christopher, Sorry for preaching, but I agree with Khaled that it’s always best to make the question as complete and accurate as possible. Often, the problem is solved by taking in the bigger picture. From the answers you got so far, you can see that people have been guessing at your situation. If you state your operating system and application, that would certainly help. Another thing you can do is: separate the problem into smaller parts. I have the feeling your problem could be in rendering, not font generation, so try using an existing font with characters in the PUA. That said, I can’t help thinking that your font is OK, but that your OS (or program) is replacing your own font’s glyphs by glyphs from another font. See what happens if you put your glyphs in less-used places in the PUA. Many of Microsoft’s fonts use slots F001-F0FF, and E000- is often used for CJK fonts, I believe. Try an area like E800-E8FF. Keep us posted! On 19/06/2010, at 2:07 PM, fontforge-users- re...@li... wrote: > Send Fontforge-users mailing list submissions to > fon...@li... > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > fon...@li... > > You can reach the person managing the list at > fon...@li... > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Fontforge-users digest..." > Today's Topics: > > 1. fontlab incompatibility (Matthew Wallis) > 2. OpenOffice and OpenType (Benct Philip Jonsson) > 3. Re: OpenOffice and OpenType (j_m...@sh...) > 4. Wishlists? (Dave Crossland) > 5. adding glyphs in private use area (Christopher Gilbreth) > 6. Re: adding glyphs in private use area (Louis Simard) > 7. Re: adding glyphs in private use area (Bill208) > 8. Re: adding glyphs in private use area (Peter Baker) > > From: "Matthew Wallis" <ma...@wo...> > Date: 7 June 2010 9:24:25 PM > To: fon...@li... > Subject: [Fontforge-users] fontlab incompatibility > > > I've noticed that when opening an FF-generated CFF opentype font in > Fontlab, quite often points are positioned differently and/or there > are not the same number of points, making the font unusable. I > think I once tried generating a type 1 from FF instead and the > problem didn't occur. Does anyone know if this is a FF or a Fontlab > issue, and if there is any way to avoid it? > > From: Benct Philip Jonsson <bp...@me...> > Date: 8 June 2010 9:01:11 AM > To: fon...@li... > Subject: [Fontforge-users] OpenOffice and OpenType > > > I have in vain googled for some substantial info > on the nature, extent and limitations of OpenType > font and OpenType features / bells-and-whistles > support in OpenOffice 3.2. Since I want to avoid > subscribing to yet another mailing list for what > probably is a one-off question I hope that the > issue might be considered on-topic here, and that > the knowledgeable people who undobtedly exist on > this list will give some info. One particularly > 'hot' issue for me is mark anchoring but also > glyph substitution (contextual and many-to-one, > as in ligaturing) are of interest. > > TIA, > > /BP 8^)> > -- > Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient > à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil > ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*, > c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo) > > > > > > From: j_m...@sh... > Date: 8 June 2010 5:04:37 PM > To: fon...@li... > Subject: Re: [Fontforge-users] OpenOffice and OpenType > > > Hi Benct > > First off, I don't know what OpenType features are supported by OOo, > so I cannot answer your question. I only know two related things that > might be helpful: > > There is an OOo extension that creates a GUI for Graphite options, so > they become much more accessible: > http://www.thanlwinsoft.org/GraphiteOOoExt/ > > On Mac OS, OOo will support AAT, but there is no way of selecting > AAT options. > > -- > grüess > mach > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson > <bp...@me...> wrote: >> I have in vain googled for some substantial info >> on the nature, extent and limitations of OpenType >> font and OpenType features / bells-and-whistles >> support in OpenOffice 3.2. Since I want to avoid >> subscribing to yet another mailing list for what >> probably is a one-off question I hope that the >> issue might be considered on-topic here, and that >> the knowledgeable people who undobtedly exist on >> this list will give some info. One particularly >> 'hot' issue for me is mark anchoring but also >> glyph substitution (contextual and many-to-one, >> as in ligaturing) are of interest. >> >> TIA, >> >> /BP 8^)> >> -- >> Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient >> à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil >> ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*, >> c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo) > > > > > > From: Dave Crossland <da...@la...> > Date: 10 June 2010 2:50:00 PM > To: Fontforge Mailinglist <fon...@li...> > Subject: [Fontforge-users] Wishlists? > > > Hi, > > If you have any feature requests for FontForge, drop me a quick > email offlist with the gist of it; a funding opportunity has come > up to hire a C developer to work on FontForge for 2 months under my > direction, and I hope to hit several 'low hanging fruit' rather > than any big feature drops. > > Regards, Dave > > > From: Christopher Gilbreth <cng...@gm...> > Date: 18 June 2010 11:33:31 PM > To: Fontforge Mailinglist <fon...@li...> > Subject: [Fontforge-users] adding glyphs in private use area > > > Hi, > > I downloaded Fontforge for Linux recently to tweak some fonts for > personal use, and I'm finding it's a great program. One major thing > I'd like to do is add glyphs to the unicode private use areas. > However, I've found that new glyphs added to these areas, e.g. > 0xF0000 of DejaVu Sans Mono, aren't recognized by my system. When I > try to insert this character in a text editor I just end up with an > empty box. (I can however modify existing characters successfully, > so the new font is being recognized by my system.) Is there > anything special I need to do to get these characters to display? > Or could it be a freetype issue? > > Thanks, > Chris > > From: Louis Simard <lou...@gm...> > Date: 19 June 2010 5:03:19 AM > To: Christopher Gilbreth <cng...@gm...> > Cc: Fontforge Mailinglist <fon...@li...> > Subject: Re: [Fontforge-users] adding glyphs in private use area > > >> However, I've found that new glyphs added to these areas, e.g. >> 0xF0000 >> of DejaVu Sans Mono, aren't recognized by my system. > > Do you mean 0xF000 or really 0xF0000 ? F0000 is outside the Unicode > Basic Multilingual Plane, so there might be incomplete support for it > in some applications. > > If it's F000, insert the character in an application with > Ctrl+Shift+U, f, 0, 0, 0, Space, and it should work. I just typed that > combination in 'gedit' and got a small check-mark. (At least I think > it's a check-mark...) > > Regards, > - Louis > > > > > > From: Bill208 <re...@gm...> > Date: 19 June 2010 5:16:10 AM > To: fon...@li... > Subject: Re: [Fontforge-users] adding glyphs in private use area > > > > > Christopher Gilbreth wrote: >> >> I've found that new >> glyphs added to these areas, e.g. 0xF0000 of DejaVu Sans Mono, aren't >> recognized by my system. >> > > Chris, > > I had the same issue and the way I discovered to solve it was to use > OpenOffice for text documents along with an OpenOffice Extension > called > Compose Special Characters. Using Compose Special Characters, you > can assign > keystrokes to a glyph outside the normal Latin range and add that > glyph to > your document. > > I haven't tried that with glyphs from the Private Area, but give it > a try. > If you have Ubuntu 10.04 OpenOffice is included with it. Open an > OpenOffice > text document and go to Tools > Extension Manager. From the screen > that > opens click-on Get More Extensions Online... and scroll down the > list until > you find Compose Special Characters. > > > Bill > > -- > View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/adding-glyphs- > in-private-use-area-tp28930942p28932470.html > Sent from the Fontforge - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > > From: Peter Baker <ps...@vi...> > Date: 19 June 2010 2:06:42 PM > To: Christopher Gilbreth <cng...@gm...> > Cc: Fontforge Mailinglist <fon...@li...> > Subject: Re: [Fontforge-users] adding glyphs in private use area > > > Do you know that you've got to generate fonts--save file won't do > it? Are you uninstalling the old version of the font before > installing the new one? > > Sent from my iPod > > On Jun 18, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Christopher Gilbreth > <cng...@gm...> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I downloaded Fontforge for Linux recently to tweak some fonts for >> personal use, and I'm finding it's a great program. One major >> thing I'd like to do is add glyphs to the unicode private use >> areas. However, I've found that new glyphs added to these areas, >> e.g. 0xF0000 of DejaVu Sans Mono, aren't recognized by my system. >> When I try to insert this character in a text editor I just end up >> with an empty box. (I can however modify existing characters >> successfully, so the new font is being recognized by my system.) >> Is there anything special I need to do to get these characters to >> display? Or could it be a freetype issue? >> >> Thanks, >> Chris >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --------- >> ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate >> GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the >> lucky parental unit. 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