Help appreciated: ligatures and font forge
Posted: 23 Jun 2016, 15:58
Hello everybody,
I just stumbled by chance in this forum while looking for hints about Font Forge, so if you don't mind, I post my problem hoping someone can help (or redirect me to someone thn can)...
I just wrote a font to write guitar fretboard diagrams in a regular text editor, with frets number, note names and various symbols (dots, squares, triangles, etc...).
The font is avaliable here : http://enricodellaquila.blogspot.it/p/m ... uitar.html
and I set up a facebook support page here : https://www.facebook.com/My-Guitar-Font ... 8108496016
I started writing it mainly for myself, and I'm glad it's been helpful for some other people too, although far from perfect...
The font simply substitutes the letters available on a regular keyboard with the symbols needed to write the diagrams, hopefully in a logic and ergonomic way... the possible glypsh are thus limited, due to the number of letters on a keyboard and to the different key.
My goal now is to write a much better version using ligatures and overcome the limited number symbols available with simple keystrokes (don't want get mad with ALT-<code> symbols, or crtl-shift-alt-key, etc...)
There is some documentation about ligatures and fontforge, but if anyone worked with it yet, would be easier to understand and get a good grasp on this topic...
Does anyone know this stuff and wishes to help?
Sorry if I annoyed, looking for suggestions
thanks in advance
Enrico Dell'Aquila
I just stumbled by chance in this forum while looking for hints about Font Forge, so if you don't mind, I post my problem hoping someone can help (or redirect me to someone thn can)...
I just wrote a font to write guitar fretboard diagrams in a regular text editor, with frets number, note names and various symbols (dots, squares, triangles, etc...).
The font is avaliable here : http://enricodellaquila.blogspot.it/p/m ... uitar.html
and I set up a facebook support page here : https://www.facebook.com/My-Guitar-Font ... 8108496016
I started writing it mainly for myself, and I'm glad it's been helpful for some other people too, although far from perfect...
The font simply substitutes the letters available on a regular keyboard with the symbols needed to write the diagrams, hopefully in a logic and ergonomic way... the possible glypsh are thus limited, due to the number of letters on a keyboard and to the different key.
My goal now is to write a much better version using ligatures and overcome the limited number symbols available with simple keystrokes (don't want get mad with ALT-<code> symbols, or crtl-shift-alt-key, etc...)
There is some documentation about ligatures and fontforge, but if anyone worked with it yet, would be easier to understand and get a good grasp on this topic...
Does anyone know this stuff and wishes to help?
Sorry if I annoyed, looking for suggestions
thanks in advance
Enrico Dell'Aquila