Typophile

Double glyph in Fontlab file

Core0

For several months I have been working on my typeface, Theory Serif. It has made great progress and I was gradually learning how to use FontLab.

Since about an hour I have been trying to solve a problem I created by accident. I don’t know how it happened, but I must have duplicated the glyph “o” and deleted the glyph “n” in the process. I fixed it by adding the “n” back, by opening a backup of my font file. However, the o is now double in the font mapping and while I can find it, I can no longer see it (as a duplicate) in the actual glyphs window. When I find and double click the letter, it jumps back to the main glyphs window, with no particular glyph selected.

I have been going back and forth, but I couldn’t find anything about this in the user manual, in forums or on Typophile. Right now I can no longer export the typeface as a font, it comes back with an OTF error, due to the double mapping with the same letter. How do I remove this letter, or how do I fix the “n” and “0” mapping issue?

Here is a screenshot of the find box showing the duplicate “o”:

To make this question clearer: I cannot see or select this glyph, it does not show up anywhere. I can find it in the mapping, but I cannot delete the duplicate instance.

Core0

Here is the original error I get when compiling the font:

[FATAL] cmap{plat=3,script=1,lang=0}: multiple glyphs o o mapped to code <6f>
ERROR: There was a problem while compiling OpenType font. Final .otf font is not saved. Please, check OpenType features definition for errors

Nick Shinn

Try looking at the font in Index mode: IIRC when I had this problem the two identical glyphs would show up in Index mode, but not the others.

Core0

Thank you, Nick, this helped. I was able to copy and delete some glyphs. It destroyed the metrics and kerning classes for the lowercase “o” and replaced the “o” component for the respective accent letters with a square, but that was relatively easy to fix.

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