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Originally Posted by Psymon
Um, where/how do I export as OTF in Font Forge? I couldn't seem to find that anywhere -- and then I thought maybe it would ask me to do that if/when I went to close the program, but all it did was crash on me (and no doubt not save any of the changes I'd made).
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File -> Generate Fonts. Select "OpenType (CFF)" and either uncheck the "Validate Before Saving" box or ignore any warning that appears (or fix those if you are feeling brave).
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PS. Oh, another question re editing the font in Font Forge... in that "English" font, for the italic, there's rather a nice "k" character (with a bit of a swashy descender) that would be great to use whenever it's followed by a space. How would I create a "k+space" kinda thing in there, so that it substitutes that character (and keep the space) whenever it encounters that? Or is that something where I should just add/change that on my own, right in my code?
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I guess you could have the k replaced with k.swash whenever it's followed by space (in a similar way how the s is replaced with long-s), but you'd still have to activate the corresponding OpenType feature, which it seems you still haven't been able to. Contrary to the long-s, that k.swash glyph has no standard Unicode slot, so I can't recommend using that in the input text.
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On a related note, I don't know if you noticed, but there's also an intriguing k+comma lig (with the comma underneath the k) in the italic versions of those Fell fonts -- I don't think I've ever seen that before, in any of the countless old books I've ever looked at! Any idea what that character (or ligature) is all about? Is it, indeed, something to be used when the letter "k" is followed by a comma? Very strange -- I really don't recall ever seeing that before.
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It's not a ligature, it's probably a k with
cedilla. I guess you only noticed because you saw the corresponding swash glyph, but there's also l, m, n, r...