Naereen / fontify

« Make your own typeface from your handwriting! ». ⚠ Work in progress. My fork adds multi-page scanned template, french/spanish accents, greek letters, and soon support for maths and ligatures characters.

https://naereen.github.io/fontify/

Add support for ligatures

Naereen opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

I want the "latin" ligatures, using the unicode caracters ﬀ ﬁ ﬂ ﬃ ﬄ ﬅ ﬆ and 🙰 as input in the template, but using a proper ligature markup in the metadata.json dict, to effectively allow my font to use the handwritten character for ff or st (or ch or whatever) instead of just two "f".
if it's easy to do, I will do the same for maths and code characters, like FiraCode.
being smart about the "ligature caret" is mandatory (see how it works in FiraCode).

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

Look for ligature here: https://fontforge.github.io/python.html#Glyph

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

And https://fontforge.github.io/meta/guide-page-3.html

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

See 7e50c6c, 28fd7d0, 63577ac and b17eb26 for a first start...

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

OK for the data and the template, I will finish this later.

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

Starting to work on parsing the scanned template.

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

I'm almost there!

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10902593/fontforge-scripting-how-to-add-ligatures-for-a-glyph

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

It's too bad, everything is here to do it but it's quite hard.

Lilian Besson commented 6 years ago

This script is much simpler, https://github.com/IlyaSkriblovsky/dv-code-font/blob/master/conv.py, I could use it to understand everything FontForge needs to have...