Hello!
I have created a font on Illustrator, imported all the characters in SVG into Font Forge, generated the font and installed it.
It works great but when I press the space bar, instead of getting an actual space, I get a vertical rectangle, as if the glyph was missing.
I've found the glyph box for space in FF but I don't know really what to do with it. If I move the guides inside it, once I reinstall the font, the glyphs are all wrong ie I get a comma or whatever when I press the A key, etc.
Am I missing something here? Thanks!!
Charlie
Shawali
All 3 comments
You need to set the width of your space. You don't have to put any shape in
there but space is a glyph and if the slot is empty it will present your
default glyph if pressed. Select the space slot in the font view and use
Metrics> Set Width, and give it any number greater than zero (though it
should be about half to two thirds the average width of your lowercase
letters).
The second problem sounds like your encoding is being set wrong. Use
Encoding> Reencode> ISO 10646-1 (Unicode, BMP). Unless you need to support
a legacy or specialty system there is no reason to use something other than
Unicode. Also be sure that the Compact attribute is not ticked.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:25 AM, Shawali [email protected] wrote:
Hello!
I have created a font on Illustrator, imported all the characters in SVG
into Font Forge, generated the font and installed it.It works great but when I press the space bar, instead of getting an
actual space, I get a vertical rectangle, as if the glyph was missing.I've found the glyph box for space in FF but I don't know really what to
do with it. If I move the guides inside it, once I reinstall the font, the
glyphs are all wrong ie I get a comma or whatever when I press the A key,
etc.Am I missing something here? Thanks!!
Charlie
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Jason Pagura
zimbach at gmail dot com
ultrasquid
on 17 Feb 2016
Thanks for your answer!
It didn't work at first, changing the width of the space glyph screwed up evertyhing and the ISO 10646-1 (Unicode, BMP) was already selected. But the, it worked when I set the width coefficient. I'm not sure why and how, but it works =)
Shawali
on 17 Feb 2016
@Shawali what is the width coefficient?
davelab6
on 15 Mar 2016
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Most helpful comment
You need to set the width of your space. You don't have to put any shape in
there but space is a glyph and if the slot is empty it will present your
default glyph if pressed. Select the space slot in the font view and use
Metrics> Set Width, and give it any number greater than zero (though it
should be about half to two thirds the average width of your lowercase
letters).
The second problem sounds like your encoding is being set wrong. Use
Encoding> Reencode> ISO 10646-1 (Unicode, BMP). Unless you need to support
a legacy or specialty system there is no reason to use something other than
Unicode. Also be sure that the Compact attribute is not ticked.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:25 AM, Shawali [email protected] wrote:
Jason Pagura
zimbach at gmail dot com