Re: [Fontforge-users] Ordering of anchors and ligatures

[Grim S <gr...@ya...>]

Performing this on my unicode font causes fontforge to
crash. I dont see any core dump - is there a way to
enable core dump to see where it is crashing? or do
you think its better to send the font?
Regards.




--- George Williams <gw...@si...> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 21:30, Grim S wrote:
> > I have an abvm base anchor marked in a ligature
> (say
> > liga1) and in one of the glyphs (say child1) which
> > composes the ligature (accented glyph). After the
> > ligature, when i type in a anchor mark glyph, the
> mark
> > is being attached to the the child1 glyph rather
> than
> > to the base anchor defined in the liga1 ligature.
> Is
> > there any reason why it is doing so, and is there
> a
> > way to fix it?
> 
> > - Create a glyph group that contains only the
> halant
> > glyph; let's say you call it grpHalant.
> > [Is 'glyph group' a Opentype thing, or more a Volt
> > one?]
> Ok, fontforge didn't support this because I didn't
> understand it nor how
> it was useful.
> Here's what you do:
> 	Element->Font Info->Mark Classes
> 	[New]
> 	 Name the class at the top
> 	 Type halant into the big textarea below
> 	 [Ok]
> 	[Ok]
> Now you've got your halant class.
> 
> Select your ligature glyph
> 	Element->Glyph Info->Ligature
> 	Double click on your ligature
> 	 There's a new pulldown button. Currently it says
> "All"
> 	 change to "grpHalant" or whatever.
> 
> This is not well tested.
> 
> > VOLT can support this because there's a mechanism
> for
> > it in the OpenType spec. So, a font development
> tool
> > that claims to support development of OpenType
> fonts
> > should provide means to do this, but that's no
> > guarantee that it does.
> I make no claim that I support ALL of opentype. I
> know I don't. VOLT
> doesn't support editing glyphs which is part of
> OpenType. Pretty
> presumptuous of them to be so snooty.
> 

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