Re: [Fontforge-users] combining diacritics

[Georg D. <g.d...@gm...>]

Am 2011-10-19 02:56, schrieb Peter Baker:
> This is exactly the right way to make a combining diacritic. I
> believe that some layout engines will place marks more or less
> correctly over base characters without anchors., but if you want a
> font to work on the widest possible variety of devices, you've got to
> learn to use anchors. Get Junicode and/or some of the SIL fonts, open
> them up and study them; read the documentation, search the list
> archive, and come back here with questions.
>
> Peter

I’d really recommend to learn to use achors. First, it’s not that hard, 
second, it allows for arbitrary combinations of base and combining glyph 
and third it makes composing precomposed characters (like e.g. egrave) 
more comfortable within fontforge.

Georg

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> On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:43 PM, ms...@an... wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
>>> Do I have to provide anchor marks for combining characters to
>>> work at all, or is there a default used by layout engines?  I
>>> presume there must
>>
>> It's probably not the officially correct way to do it, but I've
>> gotten a fair bit of mileage out of making combining characters
>> zero width, with the actual glyph appearing to the left of the
>> origin (negative left bearing).  Then when the layout engine
>> displays it, the combining character appears overlaid on the
>> previous non-combining character.  How well this works depends on
>> how varied the horizontal metrics are for the things that will be
>> used with the combining characters; obviously it's most likely to
>> be a workable solution in a monospace font. -- Matthew Skala
>> ms...@an...                 People before principles.
>> http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
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