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Re: hyphens

--- In fontographer@yahoogroups.com, "Robert_Schenk" <robert_schenk@...> wrote:
>
> Is anyone still here?

Yes!

> After a very long time of not doing much with Fontographer, I recently
> was working on revising some fonts and I cannot get the hyphen to work
> correctly. It looks fine in the font while in Fontographer, but when I
> generate the font file, there is no hyphen when I use it in MS Word or
> in TextEdit. I am using Fontographer 4.7.3. Anyone ever have a similar
> problem?

I always draw in Fontographer, but I process my fonts in Fontlab. There are
indeed some
problems with hyphens that come up there because of ancient naming issues. There
are
ways of hacking this within Fontographer but I've been so busy I just do it in
FL.

> Also, what is the name of the program that lets FontLab read
> Fontographer files?

I don't know; I never bought it because I prefer to draw in Fog and so I
generate from Fog
and then work on the suitcases I generate.




Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:39 pm

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Is anyone still here? After a very long time of not doing much with Fontographer, I recently was working on revising some fonts and I cannot get the hyphen to...
Robert_Schenk
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Jan 16, 2008
9:09 pm

... Yes! ... I always draw in Fontographer, but I process my fonts in Fontlab. There are indeed some problems with hyphens that come up there because of...
Michael Everson
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Jan 17, 2008
8:39 pm

... http://www.fontlab.com/font-converter/foglamp/foglamp-specifications/ L....
Luc[as] de Groot
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Jan 17, 2008
10:34 pm

Hi, I was annoyed by an extremely old bug yesterday ;-) Cyril! Are you here? When you paste wide artwork from e.g. FreeHand, (a process that is *much* more...
Luc[as] de Groot
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Jan 17, 2008
10:38 pm

... This resulted from Microsoft "fixing" a bug in Word by renumbering the hyphen character. Nice of them, huh? The hyphen in Fontographer is Unicode #00AD,...
johnroshell
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Jan 18, 2008
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Don't you have to add a character name? I find when I open a Fog-generated file in FLStudio 002D and 2010 are both highlighted red. The way to fix that is to...
Michael Everson
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Jan 18, 2008
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