So far, my efforts have proved effective. I am using http://www.GlyphrStudio.com/online and thus far the font seems to be working in the manner I had hoped it would. I took a snapshot of each letter and ran them through a vectorizer, then imported the vectorized images into the program and it worked beautifully. The real test will be to see how well it will work once I download the completed font and test it out fully. We shall see.

> 2017-06-24 16:18 GMT+02:00 Melroch <[log in to unmask]>:
> It depends of course on which editor, font technology and operating system
> you use, but it is surprisingly easy in opentype:
>
> http://www.opentypecookbook.com/rules.html
>
> (The whole site is a tutorial. I recommend going through it.)

I looked at OpenType and I must admit that I am a bit overwhelmed at the idea of writing out code. I am sure it is easy, but I will be starting at ground level and I am not ready to do a lot of reading for this font at the moment; however, I will start looking over the documentation and see what I can learn. It might be a preferred method in the future once I am comfortable with it.

> http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/windows-dl/
>
> I can't vouch for it as I switched to Linux ten years ago and hardly
> looked back.

I use a Mac myself.

> Den 25 jun 2017 09:51 skrev "Seth KAZAN" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> It's better to forget complexity of handmade script and create special
> style adapted to digital use...
> I avoided diacritics complex compounding glyphs to make a alphabetoid
> logography...

I truly enjoy making hand-made scripts. As a calligrapher, the essence of ink to paper always has a meditative component and helps me relax.  Indeed, the digitized version will be unrealistic since every letter will display no variance which one would expect from hand writing. That being said, I also like to see my script in action on the computer as a testing platform to see how my script will work when dealing with longer texts. I still have not yet worked out how to work in punctuation and I think once I see my font in action I will have some idea of how to cross that bridge.

Thank you all for your input.

On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:57:36 +0200, Seth KAZAN <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>In theory, yes... but in reality, writing in general and conlangs in
>particular are increasingly formatted by digital uses ...
>But if this can reassure you, as for me that remain old-fashioned,
>these adaptations were of course well-developed when digital softwares
>were only in its infancy ...
>The pleasure of slow glyph constructions is better in arty handmade
>mode than in simulated too perfect artefact standardization...
>
>2017-06-26 12:46 GMT+02:00 Melroch <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Technology should adapt to art, not the other way around!
>>
>> Besides ligature substitution is easy to achieve.
>>
>> /bpj
>>
>> Den 25 jun 2017 09:51 skrev "Seth KAZAN" <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>>> It's better to forget complexity of handmade script and create special
>>> style adapted to digital use...
>>> I avoided diacritics complex compounding glyphs to make a alphabetoid
>>> logography...
>>>
>>> 2017-06-25 8:26 UTC+02:00, Seth KAZAN <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> > I hacked the problem of ligatures using stackable characters...
>>> >
>>> > 2017-06-24 16:18 GMT+02:00 Melroch <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> >> It depends of course on which editor, font technology and operating
>>> >> system
>>> >> you use, but it is surprisingly easy in opentype:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://www.opentypecookbook.com/rules.html
>>> >>
>>> >> (The whole site is a tutorial. I recommend going through it.)
>>> >>
>>> >> BTW Fontforge is available for windows
>>> >>
>>> >> http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/windows-dl/
>>> >>
>>> >> I can't vouch for it as I switched to Linux ten years ago and hardly
>>> >> looked
>>> >> back.
>>> >>
>>> >> /bpj
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Den 23 jun 2017 17:21 skrev "Brian Bourque" <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> >>
>>> >>> After much hair pulling and gnashing of teeth, I finally figured out
>>> >>> what
>>> >>> I was missing from my font for Lortho: ligatures. With this
>>> realization,
>>> >>> it
>>> >>> seems that I now must create four ligatures per glyph to make the
>>> >>> diacritic
>>> >>> vowels interact appropriately with each letter. This seems like a
>>> >>> daunting
>>> >>> and tedious task; however, now that I know what to do, it *should* be
>>> >>> relatively easy (at least, I hope it will be). So, back to the grinding
>>> >>> wheel.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Before I dive head-first into this mission, does anyone have
>>> >>> recommendations on how I should proceed? What unexpected obstacles did
>>> >>> you
>>> >>> encounter while making your ligatures? How did you navigate around them
>>> >>> to
>>> >>> reach your goal?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Here is my current font set up for ConWorkShop:
>>> >>> http://www.conworkshop.info/view_language.php?l=LTH. Unfortunately, I
>>> >>> was
>>> >>> unable to use use SHIFT + corresponding letter to make the aspirated
>>> >>> version in CWS, so I had to rearrange the keyboard to make them render
>>> >>> properly. Otherwise, the font works fine.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> very respectfully,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Brian Bourque
>>> >>> SFC, USA (Ret)
>>> >>> [log in to unmask]
>>> >>>
>>> >>> "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged
>>> to
>>> >>> stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." - Mark Twain
>>> >>>
>>> >
>>>