Re: [fontforge-users] Composite small caps

[Thales M. <tha...@gm...>]

The algorithms are very probably full of bugs, far from perfect. Fonts
still need a lot of manual work to be produced. You should look into
Python's FontForge class documentation to see if it's possible to do that
by code. Chat bots can help you with that. I, every now and then, use
scripts to do those kinds of things, like when I wrote a script that adds
composite characters to the same kerning class as their main reference. The
scripting in FontForge's class is limited though; there are some things it
won't do, like manipulating splines.

The procedure that I suggested involves using Edit -> Unlink Reference. You
go and change the spline of the accent that is being used by the automatic
composite generation to what you want, generate the composites, unlink the
references to those generated glyphs, and change the accent glyph back to
what it was before. The downside is that, like this, you will end up with
accented glyphs containing only splines instead of the references to the
fundamental glyphs. Using layers also helps, as you can store the original
splines in a different layer, and there are commands to transfer a whole
layer to another, for all glyphs at the same time.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2026 at 8:10 PM Mauro Sacchetto <mau...@gm...>
wrote:

> Another issue: I create omacron.sc, FF ignores macron.sc and uses the
> modifier (U-02c9).
>
> However, in GPOS lookup "Mark" the correct glyph appears with macron.sc.
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> Since this behavior only occurs with macron, grave, and acute, couldn't
> it be a small bug in the automatic glyph construction mechanisms?
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