Re: [Fontforge-users] Build Duplicate Glyph menu item disabled

[Jason P. <zi...@gm...>]

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> Make sure you have an "A" glyph, then go to "Alpha" glyph and it'll be
> activated, etc.
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>  Khaled Hosny
>  Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
>  Free font developer

That's right. More generally Build Duplicate is used in building
multilingual fonts for those glyphs in some character sets that are
assumed to be identical in appearance to those in other sets. Latin,
Greek, Cyrillic, and to a lesser extent some others like Cherokee
share some glyphs in common, for example. If there is already a
drawing in one of the slots and a corresponding slot is selected, then
the Build Duplicate menu item will be active.

I find the feature counter-intuitive as it's presented and causes more
trouble than it's worth, since it does its job by assigning multiple
code points to a single glyph, but it's permitted by the format.

I wish there were a way to toggle preference between this behavior and
building duplicates with references with this menu item.
I also wish there were an automated way to spawn compound punctuation
(e.g., colon, semicolon, quotation marks, etc.) from a comma and
period, etc., using references similar to the way Build Accented Glyph
works. Something to ask over on the Dev list I guess.

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Jason Pagura
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