yacute :: yacute.ss01 = simple and easy

Thanks! I’m sure you’re right, sounds logic. But I still get an empty glyph cell when I generate yacute.ss01. Strange…

Linus,

the alias.dat file that ships with FontLab Studio does not include all possible alternate glyph + accent combinations. You can add your own composition recipes to alias.dat or you can use the following syntax in FontLab Studio's Generate Glyphs dialog:

y.ss01+acute=yacute.ss01

Before the equation sign is the recipe, and after the equation sign the desired glyph name.

More information about the recipe syntax is given in the Generate Glyphs dialog and in the manual.

I save glyph recipes in text files, including ones that use my usual naming system. When I need to make some accented characters, I find the ones (or the set) I want, and then copy and paste into the Generate Glyphs window in FontLab.

thanks! this is extremely helpful.

Is there some kind of limit to the size/lenght of the alias.dat file?

Linus,

not that I know of. Happy extending! :)

Note that in alias.dat, the sequence of items is a bit different: it's
<finalglyphname><whitespace><recipe>
while in the Generate Glyphs dialog it's
<recipe>=<finalglyphname>

That's the only difference.

A.

Thanks again Adam, works perfectly!
L.

Okay, my alias.dat is now ultra-huge but every combination works. :)

By the way, I stumbled upon these two lines:
germandbls.smcp=s.smcp_s.smcp
germandbls=f_s

Shouldn’t it be:
germandbls.smcp s.smcp+s.smcp
germandbls f+s ?

(As for myself, I would expect germandbls.smcp to look like a small capital sharp S anyway)

From the manual
_ (underscore) appends following glyph to the right.
+ (plus) appends following glyph as component of the composite glyph.

Yes, the principal difference is that with +, all components will be placed on the advance width of the first component, and with _, the advance width of the final glyph will be the sum of the widths of all components.

"W_I" will produce a glyph where I is next to W on a width which is a sum of the widths of W and I. "W+I" will produce a glyph on the width of W with I centered on W. "W+<I" will produce a glyph on the width of W with I left-aligned with W, and "W+>I" will produce a glyph on the width of W with I right-aligned with W.

I’m not sure if you understood me,

germandbls.smcp=s.smcp_s.smcp

germandbls=f_s

is in the original, unchanged alias.dat file, and I think it doesn’t do anything since it’s the wrong syntax.

Oh, I see, so there's an equal sign instead of space? That's indeed a bug, thanks!

You’re welcome!

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