At 08:55 +0700 2008-03-04, Raymond Weisling wrote:

>The font was created using Macintosh encoding and has a bunch of
>zero-width symbols and very large ascender and descender values
>because many symbols reside above regular characters. (It is for
>notation of central Javanese music, which uses numbers 1-7, some with
>dots under or above for octave, plus much more.)

Interesting. I'd like to see it. I recently prepared a proposal to
encode Javanese script. When I was in Java we found that unlike the
Balinese they did not use a complex system of musical notation, but
rather on a number and dot system as you describe.

>In 1990 I had no Windows box so I created a Windows encoded TT font.
>But now I found out that quite a few glyphs vanished from that
>version due to the original chap who made it having relied on Mac
>keyboard shortcuts, when those characters are on the list of .notdef
>on Windows. In particular, a string of elevated numbers 1-7 using
>shift-opt-1 thru 7.

Do you have a list of all the glyphs and all the characters they
corresponded to?

>I'm trying to achieve three possibly mutually exclusive goals.
>
>1. Make a Windows TT font with these symbols.
>
>2. The Windows font should allow documents to be made and editable on
>Mac, and visa-versa.

There can be issues with older v. newer Mac OS.

>3. The original Mac font should not be changed, or else it will break
>many files in many people's archives.
>
>What is encouraging is that documentation done on the Mac, and
>Acrobat Distilled with embedded fonts, can be opened on Windows with
>100% perfection, nothing lost. Distiller knows what I want to know ;-)

The thing to do is to process your font in FontLab, I think.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com