[smc-devel] Malayalam Font doubts.

[Ramakrishnan M]

I am trying to know what tools are available (free, of course) for the 
development
of TrueType/Open Type fonts? How are you guys (whoever is working on fonts) 
adding
new glyphs to existing fonts?

Also a silly doubt. AFAIK, TTF uses a 16 bit glyph id. So if we add enough 
glyphs 
for complex characters and combined characters and provide a mapping table in 
the
form of a library along with the font, will that be better than OpenType? 

I found it a bit difficult to use VOLT(which requires MS Win32) or any other 
tools 
to hack on OTF. Instead a text based tool which can be edited using a normal 
editor
will be the most wonderful thing to have.

I understand that there is no standardisation on the glyphs to be added and 
their
positions and other details.

Any ideas?
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