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Ehsan
Ehsan

Reputation: 4464

How to reference to other glyphs in fontforge?

Let's say we a have a glyph named "fi" so it is composed from "f" and "i" so how can I referenced that to substitute the f+i in the font with this glyph(i.e., "fi")? through scripting with fontforge or even if you have any idea how can I do that with the fontforge user interface, I will appreciate that.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2416

Answers (2)

Sildoreth
Sildoreth

Reputation: 1915

As I understand it, you're question is "how can I create a glyph for one character (e.g., 'i') and then have a different character (e.g., 'fi') simply reference the glyph that I created for the other character?".

I was also having difficulty figuring out how to do this. Eventually, I tried this; and it worked:

  1. Open the character that you want to edit
  2. In the list of characters, navigate to the character that has the glyph you want to reference
  3. Single-click the character to select it
  4. Now Click-and-drag from the list into the Edit window for the character you're editing

Upvotes: 2

davelab6
davelab6

Reputation: 330

There is a unicode point for that particular ligature, http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fb01/index.htm

OpenType Layout is used to create ligatures.

The FontForge UI for it is explained here: http://code.newtypography.co.uk/creating-contextual-ligatures-in-fontforge/

Upvotes: 0

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