Hi,
I’m a type design noob creating a custom font for personal use.
I’m making a CJK font in which a single glyph will contain the shape of an entire word, eg:
A => “aye”
B => “bee”
C => “cite”
D => “djinn”
E => “eye”
…etc…
I’m actually able to do this manually in FontForge, using the “Insert Word Outline…” menu item, but the scripting doesn’t support that call so it would be incredibly tedious to manually build the number of glyphs I have in mind (it’s for Korean Hangul).
Anyone know whether this is feasible to do and to script in Glyphs?
Insert the respective components in the right order (Cmd-shift-C, type the glyph name of the letter you want to insert, repeat), then, when the word is finished, decompose (Cmd-shift-D). Or better yet, keep the components and do not decompose.
Thank you, I’m able to perform those steps manually via UI to get the desired output.
However, the successive calls to “Cmd-Shift-C” piled the components on top of one another, resulting in my having to manually realign them, which is a bit iffy to do by hand via UI and I’m not sure at all how to do so by script.
Is there a way to insert an entire word at a time, rather than letter-by-letter?
Activate automatic alignment. There is a font-wide option in Font Info > Other Settings, and you can do it on a glyph level via the context menu (when components are selected).