Index
A
- About FontForge
- AccentCenterLowest preference item
- AccentOffsetPercent preference item
- acorn2sfd
- Adding more glyphs to a font
- Advance Width
- Advanced Typography
- GSUB, GPOS & morx
- Examining features
- Creating with Element->Glyph Info
- Creating with Element->Font Info
- See Feature
- alternate substitution (in GSUB)
- AlwaysGenApple preference item
- Anchor Classes
- Anchor points
- Apple mode in ttf generation
- ArrowMoveSize preference item
- Ascender
- Ascent
- AskBDFResolution preference item
- AutoHint
- AutoLBearingSync preference item
- AutoTrace
- AutoTraceArgs preference item
- AutotraceAskpreference item
- AutoWidthSync preference item
B
- Baseline
- BDF
– Bitmap distribution format
- extensions for greymap support
- generating
- creating a bitmap font– see bitmap font
- Bézier curve or Bézier splines
- Bitmap view
- Bitmap fonts
- Black letter
- BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode)
- BlueValues
- Bold
BROWSERenvironment variable- Bugs
- Build Instructions (from source code)
C
- Cap-height
- CFF
- chaining contextual positioning (in GPOS)
- chaining contextual substitution (in GSUB)
- Changelog
- Character
- Character set
- CharCenterHighest preference item
- CID
- CID-keyed font
- CJK
- CJKV
- Command line arguments
- Compact File Format (CFF)
- Condensed style
- Contextual features
- OpenType (substitutions, ligatures, kerning, positioning)
- Apple fonts (substitutions, glyph insertion, indic rearangement, kerning)
- CopyMetaData
- Copyright
- Cubic splines
- Example
- Setting font order (by turning off quadratic splines)
- cursive attachment (in GPOS) cursive connection(in morx)
- Cygwin
D
- Descender
- Descent
- Device Table
- Didot point
- Display dialog (for examining fonts on the screen)
- Distortable font
- See Multi-Master
- Downloads
- DumpGlyphMap preference item
E
- Eeyore
- em
- em unit
- en
- Encoding
- Environment Variables
- eps files (encapsulated postscript)
- Error Recovery
- Even-Odd fill rule
- Extended style
F
- Family
- Familyname
- FAQ
- Feature (in advanced typography tables)
- Feature tags (OpenType)
- Feature/Settings (Apple)
- mapping between the two
- Tagging a lookup with a feature
- ordering features within GSUB/GPOS/morx
- fig files (generated by xfig)
- Files used by FontForge
- Flex Hints
- The criteria for flex hints are given on pages 72-73 of Adobe’s T1_Spec.pdf.
- The UpdateFlex preference item
- Font
- Font Family
- Font File Formats
- Font Info dialog
- FontLab
- Fontname
- Fontographer
- Font View
- FoundryName
- Fractur
- FreeType
- FreeTypeInFontView preference item
- In the bitmap generationdialogs
- Using the freetype based truetype debugger
- Seeing the results of (freetype based) glyph grid fitting
- FullName
- Setting with Font Info (as human readable name)
G
- GDEF opentype table
- Glossary
- Glyph
- GlyphMap
- Glyph Info dialog
- GPOS opentype table
- Gothic
- Grid Fitting
- GreekNames preference item
- Grotesque
- GSUB opentype table
H
- Help
- HelpDir preference item
- Hints
- AutoHint preference item
- Histograms for StemSnap and BlueValues
- Hot Keys
I
- Ikarus
- Images
- Indic style rearrangement(in morx)
- Installing fonts for
- Instructions, TrueType
- Install Instructions System specific install procedures Unix/Linux Mac MS/Windows VMS from source
- Italic
- Italic Angle
- ItalicConstrained preference item
- Italic Correction
J
- JoinSnap preference item
K
- kern truetype table
- See also GPOS opentype table
- Kerning
- Kerning by classes
- Kern pair
L
- Left side bearing
- Definition
- Setting the left side bearing from the menu
- Setting the left side bearing from a script
- Lemur
- LGC
- ligature
- ligature substitution (in GSUB)
- ligature substitution(in morx)
- Line Gap
- Line Spacing
- License
- LoadedFontsAsNew preference item
- LocalEncoding preference item
- Localization
- See also X-Resources
- Lookup dialog
- Lookup subtable dialogs
M
- Macintosh specifics
- Installing
- Generating Mac Fonts
- Generating Mac Font Families
- Mac Features to OTF Features conversion preference item
- Mac Features in morx table
- Mac font formats
- Mailing lists
- math
- mark to base (in GPOS)
- mark to ligature (in GPOS)
- mark to mark (in GPOS)
- MetaFont
- See MF (for Knuth’s program)
- MF
- MfArgs preference item
- MfClearBg preference item
- MfShowErr preference item
- Menus
- Metrics View
- Milne, A. A.
- MIME type
- for sfd files: application/vnd.font-fontforge-sfd
- Monospace
- morx truetype table
- See also GSUB opentype table
- morx feature/settingcorrespondence to otf feature tags
- Multiple Master font
- multi-layered fonts
- multiple substitution (in GSUB)
N
- NameList
- Naming a font
- NewCharset preference item
- NewEmSize preference item
- NewFontsQuadratic preference item
- non-contextual glyph substitution(in morx)
- non-standard SFNT (TrueType) tables
- non-standard OpenType features
- non-zero winding number rule
O
- Oblique
- OpenType
- Definition
- Generating opentype fonts
- OpenType Advanced typography tables (GPOS, GSUB and GDEF).
- OpenType tables
- Adobe’s specification
- Outline Character View
- Overshoot
P
- pair adjustment (in GPOS)
- Panose
- Path
- FontForge
- ‘PfEd’ table
- Pica point
- Piglet
- Point
- Point Size
- PostScript
- PreferCJKEncoding preference item
- Preference items
- Private dictionary
- Python scripts
- Using FontForge from python(rather than python from FontForge)
Q
- Quadratic splines
- Quit
R
- Reencoding a font
- Reference
- Definition
- Description
- creating with Copy Reference and Paste commands
- ResourceFile preference item
- reverse chaining contextual substitution (in GSUB) (not supported)
- Right side bearing
S
- Sans Serif
- Script
- Description – as a generic term for alphabets, syllabaries and ideographic writing systems
- As a set of commands for FontForge to run
- Executing a script within FontForge
- Executing a script from the command line
- Python scripts
- Using FontForge from python(rather than python from FontForge)
- Legacy fontforge scripts
- script sub-menu
- Script tags
- Scripting
- Python Scripting
- Using FontForge from python(rather than python from FontForge)
- Legacy Scripting
- Python Scripting
- Script menu
- Preferences to define it
- menu
- Search
- Search for a shape (and replace it with another)
- Serif
- sfd (Spline Font Database)
- format
- MIME type: application/vnd.font-fontforge-sfd
- sfddiff
- single adjustment (in GPOS)
- single substitution (in GSUB)
- SnapDistance preference item
- Sourceforge
- Spline
- Spline font database format
- State machines
- StdHW/StdVW
- StemSnapH/V
- StopAtJoin preference item
- Stroked glyph
- Stroked font
- Setting font type with Element->FontInfo
- Style
- SVG fonts
- Syllabary
T
- tables (in SFNTs – TrueType/OpenType files)
- Table of Contents(sort of )
- Tags
- SFNT tags (table tags)
- OpenType tags
- TeX
- tfm files
- Transform
- True Type
- Definition
- Generating truetype fonts
- TrueType Advanced typography tables (GPOS, GSUB and GDEF or kern, morx and prop).
- TrueType tables
- Apple’s specification
- TrueType Instructions
- TTF
- See True Typeabove
- TTF Foundry preference item
- Tutorial
- Type 1
- Type 2
- Type 3
- Type 0
- Type 42
- Typewriter
U
- Underline Position & Size
- Undo menu item
- UndoDepth preference item
- UniqueID
- Unicode
- UpdateFlex preference item
- UseMyMetrics
V
- Version (Font Version)
- Setting PostScript with Element->Font Info
- Setting CID with Element->Font Info
- Setting TrueType with Element->Font Info
- Vertical Advance Width
- Vertical Metrics
- Vertical Origin
W
- Wacom
- Weight
- Width
- Winding number rule
- Windows specifics
- See cygwin
X
- X-height
- xfig
- X Resources
- XUID
- XUID-Base preference item
Y
Z