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A | About FontForge AccentCenterLowest preference item AccentOffsetPercent preference item acorn2sfd Adding more glyphs to a font Advance Width Definition Setting in outline glyph view Setting in the bitmap view Setting via menu item Advanced Typography GSUB, GPOS & morx Examining features Creating with Element->Glyph Info Creating with Element->Font Info See Feature alternate substitution (in GSUB) AlwaysGenApple preference item Anchor Classes Definition Creating with Font Info Overview Creating Anchor points (or attachment points) Examining and changing Device tables and Anchor points Overview Creating Apple mode in ttf generation preference item ArrowMoveSize preference item Ascender Definition Ascent Definition Setting in Font Info AskBDFResolution preference item AutoHint Menu Command Scripting Command Preference items AutoHint before rasterizing and generating fonts. AutoLBearingSync preference item AutoTrace menu command argument preference item environment variable AutoTraceArgs preference item AutotraceAsk preference item AutoWidthSync preference item
B | Baseline Baseline Baseline dialog Baseline overview BDF -- Bitmap distribution format extensions for greymap support generating creating a bitmap font -- see bitmap font Bézier curve or Bézier splines Definition Bitmap view Overview In Depth Bitmap fonts Creating in fontforge editing Black letter Definition BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode) BlueValues Setting with Font Info Bold Definition Using the Element->Style->Change Weight command to create `BROWSER` environment variable Bugs Lacks Outstanding Reporting bugs to me Build Instructions (from source code)
C | Cap-height Definition CFF Definition chaining contextual positioning (in GPOS) Creating Modifying chaining contextual substitution (in GSUB) Creating Modifying Changelog older oldest Character Definition Character set Definition CharCenterHighest preference item CID Definition CID-keyed font Definition CJK Definition CJKV Definition Command line arguments Compact File Format (CFF) Condensed style Definition Using the Element->Style-> Condense/Extend command to create Contextual features OpenType (substitutions, ligatures, kerning, positioning) Creating Modifying Example Apple fonts (substitutions, glyph insertion, indic rearangement, kerning) Creating Modifying Example CopyMetaData menu preference item Copyright Of FontForge Setting a font's copyright with Font Info Cubic splines Example Setting font order (by turning off quadratic splines) cursive attachment (in GPOS) cursive connection (in morx) Cygwin Installing on windows
D | Descender Definition Descent Definition Setting in Font Info Device Table and kerning values and anchor points Didot point Definition See also Point Display dialog (for examining fonts on the screen) Distortable font See Multi-Master Downloads Sourceforge's file release system source code dependencies documentation cidmap files DumpGlyphMap preference item
E | Eeyore em Definition Setting with Font Info em unit Definition en Definition Encoding Definition Setting with the Encoding menu User defined Environment Variables eps files (encapsulated postscript) importing them into an outline glyph exporting them from an outline glyph Error Recovery Even-Odd fill rule Extended style Definition Using the Element->Style-> Condense/Extend command to create
F | Family Definition Familyname Setting with Font Info FAQ Feature (in advanced typography tables) Feature tags (OpenType) Feature/Settings (Apple) mapping between the two changing the mapping Tagging a lookup with a feature ordering features within GSUB/GPOS/morx fig files (generated by xfig) importing them into an outline glyph exporting them from an outline glyph Files used by FontForge Flex Hints The criteria for flex hints are given on pages 72-73 of Adobe's T1_Spec.pdf. The UpdateFlex preference item Font Definition Font Family Definition Font File Formats Font Info dialog FontLab Fontname Setting with Font Info Fontographer Font View Overview In depth FoundryName preference item for bdf preference item for ttf Fractur Definition FreeType FreeTypeInFontView preference item In the bitmap generation dialogs Using the freetype based truetype debugger Seeing the results of (freetype based) glyph grid fitting FullName Setting with Font Info (as human readable name)
G | GDEF opentype table Glossary Glyph Definition Element->Glyph Info Color Comment components Standard components as specified by Unicode Actual components as given in ligatures Name Unicode code point assignment GlyphMap Glyph Info dialog GPOS opentype table Gothic Definition Grid Fitting Definition and truetype hinting menu command to show results of GreekNames preference item Grotesque Definition GSUB opentype table
H | Help Specifying a browser HelpDir preference item Hints Definition Longer description Menu AutoHint AutoHint preference item Font-Wide hints BlueValues StemSnap Setting in Private dictionary Order in which to use FontForge's commands to hint a postscript font. TrueType instructions Description Dialog AutoHint preference item Histograms for StemSnap and BlueValues Hot Keys
- I | Ikarus Images Importing into background layer Example Example 2 Importing into bitmap glyph Exporting bitmap (or anti-aliased) Indic style rearrangement (in morx) Installing fonts for Macintosh OS/X Older macs TeX Unix & X Windows Instructions, TrueType Install Instructions
  System specific install procedures
  Unix/Linux | Mac | MS/Windows | VMS | from source
Italic Definition Italic Angle Setting with Font Info ItalicConstrained preference item Italic Correction
J | JoinSnap preference item
K | kern truetype table See also GPOS opentype table Kerning Definition In User's Guide Vertical Kerning Kerning by classes Kern pair Definition Setting kern pairs from the metrics view Setting kern pairs with auto kern Examining kern pairs from the metrics view Examining kern pairs from the combinations menu And Device tables
L | Left side bearing Definition Setting the left side bearing from the menu Setting the left side bearing from a script Lemur Definition LGC Definition ligature Definition creating with Char Info creating with Default ATT ligature substitution (in GSUB) ligature substitution (in morx) Line Gap Setting with Font Info Line Spacing Traditional line spacing Setting line spacing in a font License Of FontForge Setting the TrueType License & License URL names LoadedFontsAsNew preference item LocalEncoding preference item Localization See also X-Resources Lookup dialog Lookup subtable dialogs
M | Macintosh specifics Installing Generating Mac Fonts Generating Mac Font Families Mac Features to OTF Features conversion preference item Mac Features in morx table Mac font formats Mailing lists math mark to base (in GPOS) mark to ligature (in GPOS) mark to mark (in GPOS) MetaFont See MF (for Knuth's program) MF Converting .mf files into a format FontForge can use environment variable argument preference item MfArgs preference item MfClearBg preference item MfShowErr preference item Menus File Edit Points Element Hints View Metrics CID MM Window Help Menu Hot Keys Metrics View Overview In Depth Milne, A. A. MIME type for sfd files: application/vnd.font-fontforge-sfd Monospace Definition morx truetype table See also GSUB opentype table morx feature/setting correspondence to otf feature tags Multiple Master font Creating Editing Adobe's docs Apple's docs multi-layered fonts Discussion Setting font type multiple substitution (in GSUB)
N | NameList Format of a name list file Naming a font NewCharset preference item NewEmSize preference item NewFontsQuadratic preference item non-contextual glyph substitution (in morx) non-standard SFNT (TrueType) tables non-standard OpenType features non-zero winding number rule
O | Oblique Definition OpenType Definition Generating opentype fonts OpenType Advanced typography tables (GPOS, GSUB and GDEF). OpenType tables Adobe's specification Outline Character View overview in depth Overshoot Definition
P | pair adjustment (in GPOS) Panose Definition Setting with Font Info Path Direction FontForge 'PfEd' table Pica point Definition See Also Point Piglet Point Definition Point Size Definition PostScript Definition Adobe's online reference manual PreferCJKEncoding preference item Preference items Getting values of in a script Setting values of in a script Menu command Private dictionary Setting font wide hinting information Python scripts Using FontForge from python (rather than python from FontForge)
Q | Quadratic splines Example Setting font order Quit menu command scripting command
R | Reencoding a font Reference Definition Description creating with Copy Reference and Paste commands ResourceFile preference item reverse chaining contextual substitution (in GSUB) (not supported) Right side bearing Definition Setting from the metrics menu
S | Sans Serif Definition Script Description -- as a generic term for alphabets, syllabaries and ideographic writing systems As a set of commands for FontForge to run Executing a script within FontForge Executing a script from the command line Python scripts Using FontForge from python (rather than python from FontForge) Legacy fontforge scripts script sub-menu Description Preferences for it Script tags Scripting Python Scripting Using FontForge from python (rather than python from FontForge) Legacy Scripting Script menu Preferences to define it menu Search Search for a shape (and replace it with another) Serif Definition sfd (Spline Font Database) format MIME type: application/vnd.font-fontforge-sfd sfddiff single adjustment (in GPOS) single substitution (in GSUB) SnapDistance preference item Sourceforge Spline Definition Longer definition with example Bézier cubic splines quadratic splines Spline font database format State machines dialog example StdHW/StdVW Setting with Font Info StemSnapH/V Setting with Font Info StopAtJoin preference item Stroked glyph example Expand Stroke Freehand tool Stroked font Setting font type with Element->FontInfo Style Definition SVG fonts Syllabary Definition
T | tables (in SFNTs -- TrueType/OpenType files) Table of Contents (sort of ) Tags SFNT tags (table tags) Used in FontForge Defined by OpenType Defined by Apple OpenType tags Feature Script Language Baseline TeX Installing fonts for TeX font parameters generating tfm files 'TeX ' table in SFNT files general notes tfm files generating tfm files loading kerning information from a tfm file Transform Transform dialog non-linear transformations Point of View transformations True Type Definition Generating truetype fonts TrueType Advanced typography tables (GPOS, GSUB and GDEF or kern, morx and prop). TrueType tables Apple's specification TrueType Instructions See Hints above TTF See True Type above TTF Foundry preference item Tutorial Type 1 Definition Adobe's Type1 specification. Type 2 Definition Adobe's Type2 spec. See Also Compact File Format (CFF) Type 3 Definition Type 0 Definition Type 42 Adobe's spec Typewriter Definition
U | Underline Position & Size Undo menu item UndoDepth preference item UniqueID Discussion Setting with Font Info Unicode As used in FontForge BMP UpdateFlex preference item UseMyMetrics Discussion Setting it Setting it in a script
V | Version (Font Version) Setting PostScript with Element->Font Info Setting CID with Element->Font Info Setting TrueType with Element->Font Info Vertical Advance Width Setting via menu item Setting in outline glyph view Vertical Metrics Enabling with Font Info Setting in the glyph view Vertical Origin Setting with Font Info
W | Wacom Weight Definition Width Definition Advance width Vertical Advance Width Settng via menu item Setting in outline glyph view Setting in bitmap view Setting via menu item Winding number rule Windows specifics See cygwin
X | X-height Definition xfig importing fig files into an outline glyph exporting fig files from an outline glyph X Resources XUID Discussion Setting with Font Info Preference item XUID-Base preference item
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