Re: creating a new OTF found

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Please keep discussion on the mailing list.

I think the easiest way is to write a FontForge script. First write the 
tables to a file, and after modifying the font, add it with
LoadTableFromFile. It should work, as long as you don't modify glyph names.



Reza Zamani Nasab schreef:
> Thank you.
> Do you know any other tool/method by which I can
> preserve tables? Do these tables depend on the shape
> of the glyphs, i.e. if I edit 1 or 2 glyphs, do I have
> to update the tables (or it just suffices to somehow
> copy/paste them to the new font)?
>
> --Reza
>
>
> --- Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > lilypondtester schreef:
> > > I tried to change a few symbols in the lilypond
> > OTF fonts. This is the
> > > process which I tried:
> > >
> > > I opened the OTF fonts (located under
> > "usr\share\lilypond\current\fonts\otf"
> > > in windows distribution) using fontfoge, edited a
> > few symbols and generated
> > > fonts using "File/GenerateFont" option. The
> > generated file is much smaller
> > > than the original font and when I replace it with
> > the original lilypond
> > > font, It always generates error message "can't
> > find OpenType tables" when
> > > compiling *.ly files. Apparently there is kind of
> > "table" stored in the
> > > original OTF files that when I edit them by
> > fontforge and then regenerate
> > > the fonts, are lost (even if I dont edit anything
> > and just regenerate the
> > > font, the generated font file-size is much smaller
> > and the problem persists.
> > > Even if I use FontLab -a windows alternative to
> > FontForge- the problem
> > > persists).
> > >
> > > I guess there is an elementary thing here which I
> > miss, since this is the
> > > first time i'm editing a font. any ideas?
> > The LilyPond OTF contains 3 tables, LILY, LILC and
> > LILF which should be 
> > preserved. I'm not sure how to do this in FF.
> >
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> >
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden -
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
> >
> > LilyPond Software Design
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>
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