[fontforge-users] Newbie question: where to put oldstyle and lining figures

[hammerquill]

Hi -

I am just starting to work with fontforge, and have never created a font
from scratch. I want to begin to learn the program by adding old style
figures to a font I have that is in dire need of them. I have been trying to
figure out where to put such figures in the font. Alternatively, since the
font I'm starting from is really supposed to have old style figures as a
default (historically speaking) I would like to know where to copy and place
the lining figures. I believe I understand the names of the glyphs are the
important thing, but, being new to this, I'm trying to figure out how to
avoid putting these in the wrong place in the unicode encoding. Sorry if
this is unclear; I really am just starting out and trying to get myself
oriented in the program and in proper font creation.

http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Numerals.html didn't give me any useful
information on the program - just on design points I already understood. All
the other searching I've done just comes up with information on how to use
old style figures in an existing font.

Thanks in advance.





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[David J. Perry]

A typical scenario is to draw the figures, name them something like one.01 or one.onum, and do not give them Unicode values. Then construct the Open Type old style numbers feature (onum) for users to access them.

If you really want the old style numbers to be the default, rename the existing figures and remove their Unicode values. Draw the old style figures and assign them the names and Unicode values normally given to the numbers 0-9. You can, if you wish, add an OT feature to give users access to the lining numerals if desired.

Post by hammerquill
Hi -
I am just starting to work with fontforge, and have never created a font
from scratch. I want to begin to learn the program by adding old style
figures to a font I have that is in dire need of them. I have been trying to
figure out where to put such figures in the font. Alternatively, since the
font I'm starting from is really supposed to have old style figures as a
default (historically speaking) I would like to know where to copy and place
the lining figures. I believe I understand the names of the glyphs are the
important thing, but, being new to this, I'm trying to figure out how to
avoid putting these in the wrong place in the unicode encoding. Sorry if
this is unclear; I really am just starting out and trying to get myself
oriented in the program and in proper font creation.
http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Numerals.html didn't give me any useful
information on the program - just on design points I already understood. All
the other searching I've done just comes up with information on how to use
old style figures in an existing font.
Thanks in advance.
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