(This is probably covered in the manual, but I haven’t finished reading it yet.)
I have found how to add named common glyphs by Command-Clicking the categories in the left of the Font map window. However, I have three questions on how to add other glyphs.
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How do I add common ligatures and fractions? For example, f-ligatures fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl, or other less common but still supported in some fonts. I see the fractions for 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1/8, 3/8, 5/8, 7/8 are available in the Numbers -> Fractions subcategory, but what about 1/3, 2/3, 1/6, 5/6, or 5ths?
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How do I add glyphs for:
2.1 long-s, the archaic lowercase S used in Europe, the ancestor of the left half of the ß ?
2.2 the new, not yet widely supported capital asset / German double S / capital ß;
2.3. Capital and lowercase Schwa, which are rotated/flipped H & V of E, e ;
2.4. General Case: Any Unicode number or named character?
2.5 The florin or Option-F ‘ƒ’ function character included in the OpenType Standard and the old PostScript Type 1 and MacRoman sets?
2.6. The non-breaking space and soft/optional hyphen characters? -
I don’t know how to add alternate stylistic characters, with their diacritic descendants. For examples: double-story and single-story a and g, especially.
3.1 I have not yet found how to automatically center and move diacritics, to properly do the uppercase and lowercase diacritics. I don’t know if Glyphs Mini will automate the centering and (x, y) offset, but I got the impression that you can set it up to do so. – I do know how to Add Components, and I think I’ve learned how to Make Components.
- I want to be able to set up, for example, both kinds of lowercase a and g and possibly y, in some fonts, and let users choose which they want, where I set up defaults in the normal glyphs and the alternates are there if they want them. But I haven’t seen how to do this, or how to do it so that diacritic, accented letters based on these, are created and updated automatically.
- I somehow accidentally added an alternative glyph in a font draft, for a lowercase i. But I don’t know how to remove it.
3.2 For the lowercase I accented letters, i_acute, i_grave, i_circumflex, i_dieresis/umlaut, and so on, is the dotless-i the base character, or is there some other character glyph I’m supposed to set up, which is then used to generate these with the diacritics?
Oops, another question:
- Are there something like, small capital lining numerals, as opposed to the old style non-lining numerals? How do I set lining, tabular numerals as the default? If I draw the old style numerals, but I want the lining tabular numerals as the default, for instance, how do I do that, simply put the ones I want in the default 0-9 positions (ASCII) and then set up the other numeral styles? Or how do I override to be sure the old style numerals are not the default, please? (I personally dislike the old style numerals, but they are in fashion to provide them for people who do want them.)
Thank you!