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


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, and to work in Word, you need to
create a
duplicate character #002D. Here's how:

1. go to Element > Font Info (command f)

2. set the number of characters to 257

3. Copy and paste your hyphen character into the new character.

4. Select the new character, and select Element > Selection Info (command i)

5. Enter "$002D" in the Unicode index field

That should do it! Let me know if not -- it's been a while since I did this, and
I may have
skipped a step.



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

It's not really necessary -- just export Windows Postscript, then open the .PFB
in Fontlab.
As long as the .PFM is in the same folder, it will import the kerning and
everything.

jg