Excluding glyphs on export?

Glyphs
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I’ve been trying to search for answers to a question I have, but I think I’m searching for the wrong terms. What I’m hoping to do is export only certain glyphs, so I end up with a bare-bones font with all caps (that also cover lowercase), numbers, and very basic punctuation. Is there a way to exclude a range of glyphs from output? Can it be done with a custom parameter in an instance?

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Right click on the glyphs in Font View, or right-click in edit view, and you can activate or deactivate export. Or use the custom parameter “Remove Glyphs”

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Thanks! This worked as expected, except for the lowercase. My goal may be unrealistic. I want uppercase to be displayed regardless of whether uppercase or lowercase characters are typed, but I prefer not to actually delete the lowercase glyphs. It seems like it may be easier to duplicate the file and destructively customize it to achieve what I want.

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Put components of the uppercase characters into the matching lowercase characters.

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I think I am misunderstanding something. If I put uppercase components into the lowercase slots, where would my lowercase characters go? I don’t want to lose them. I just want to turn them off temporarily to create a simplified all-caps font. It seems like maybe what I want to do can’t be done with a single file. I may just duplicate the file and delete the lowercase. If I have read correctly, the uppercase will take over the lowercase automatically.

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Then you need an instance with a combination of the Remove Glyphs and Reencode Glyphs parameters.

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Thanks. This gives me something to study.

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I got this working the way I wanted on my Mac in Illustrator. In case it helps someone trying to do the same thing, I am noting what I did.

  1. Created an instance called “Caps”
  2. Created a “Remove Features” custom parameter for that instance:
    ccmp
    liga
    calt
  3. Created a “Keep Glyphs” custom parameter and listed every character I wanted to keep. I excluded lowercase. For example:
    A
    B
    C
    zero
    one
    two
  4. Created a “Reencode Glyphs” custome parameter to give uppercase glyphs to the lowercase. For example:
    A=0061
    B=0062
    C=0063
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I pulled the font into TransType and noticed that the uppercase seems missing. When I open the OTF in Glyphs, there is only the lowercase unicode range. The glyphs are all uppercase. I get expected behavior in Illustrator, but I suspect that won’t be the case everywhere. What is the solution for copying uppercase over lowercase and not losing the uppercase? I want to create an instance that outputs an all-caps font. Is there a way to double encode with a custom parameter?

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I have tried to find a solution in various ways: renaming, reencoding, replacing lowercase with alternate caps, changing the order of the parameters. There are multiple ways in which the Mac displays them in Illustrator as I intend, but I keep finding problems when I view the font in other apps

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You need to add the Unicode of the upper and lower case in the ‘Reencode’ parameter (separated by a comma).

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Thanks. Like this?
A=0041,0061

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Yes.

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