: Combine 2 Unicode letters into 1 in Fontlab Studio Being new to Fontlab Studio 5, I'm creating a Tifinagh font using its Unicode block... I created all the letters for my font, now I need

@Margaret771

The term "ligature" in typography usually refers to combining two or more letters when they appear in a defined sequence as shown here:



In your question though you seem to ask about creating accented characters, these aren't created with the otf ligature functionality, There are several ways to create them:


Find the right Unicode character, let's say Ǎ - Latin Capital Letter a with Caron: U+01CD, and draw into it the capital A and the Caron (There might be a way to use anchors and components to ease the task of completing all the relevant characters but that depends on the software you use and I don't know the one you mentioned), this way when someone with the right keyboard type that letter it will show up without the need of the ligature functionality.
Use Combining characters. this is quite a rare functionality I have no experience with and with reportedly lots of disadvantages.
Some font creators have developed simple means to create the accented characters, one is Fontark.net on which you can draw the diacritical marks once and it automates the combining of them with all the relevant characters, you can see how it works here.

Vote Up Vote Down