Re: [Fontforge-users] Font can't be installed in OS X

[Peter B. <ps...@vi...>]

Michael Zedler wrote:
>
> An unrelated question but anyway related to Junicode: Why you choose to 
> generate Truetype Opentype instead of CFF Opentype? Because hinting 
> diagonal stems is possible?
>
> Michael
>
>   

There are several reasons.

I tried issuing it as CFF OpenType some years ago, but there were bugs 
that showed up only on the Mac and Windows, and I had to withdraw it. 
Probably such problems wouldn't come up again, but I haven't gotten 
around to trying.

Most of my primary audience (= medieval scholars) are not very 
technical: TrueType OpenType is a far more familiar format to them than 
CFF OpenType.

CFF OpenType fonts still don't seem to work with OpenOffice.

Rather perversely, I like quadratic editing and feel very comfortable 
with it. I even like writing TT instructions.

I know of no compelling reason to use CFF rather than TT. Am I missing 
something?