On Sat, 2005-01-29, someone wrote
> Also note that there're two modes of copying in FontForge: with
> metrics, or just glyph outlines (without metrics). For all of these
> glyphs, you want to copy metrics over as well. I don't know how this
> is exactly done from scripts, but there's a "Copy metadata" in the
> Edit menu somewhere, which modifies the basic copying behaviour in UI.
> Perhaps Copy() works this way from scripts by default.
Copy metadata isn't apropos here. That copies glyph-names & unicode code
point as well as outlines.
Whether the advance width is copied (I assume that's what is meant by
"with metrics") depends on whether you do a Paste() which clears out the
old glyph (if any) and replaces it with the new. This copies the advance
width too. Or PasteInto() which adds the outlines in the clipboard to
the destination glyph (and leaves the previous stuff there). This does
not change the advance width.
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:38, Dafydd Harries wrote:
> The results are mostly successful, but there are some problems with the
> sizes (metrics?) of some glyphs in some of the fonts, which aren't
> present in the fonts I copied them from.
I don't understand what you are saying. When ff copies a glyph from one
font to another it should not change it in any way. If you copy a glyph
into a mono-space font it will not be adjusted to fit. If you copy a
glyph into a font with a different em-size, cap-height, x-height, etc.
it will not be adjusted to fit.
Similarly copying a glyph should not change any other glyphs (except for
those which refer to the copied glyph)
If you have a glyph that has been changed by the copying process, that
is a bug in fontforge.
But I don't know enough about how the glyphs in
http://kvota.net/fonts/urwcyr/nimbus-mono-side-by-side.png
were generated to tell what's going on. I think 271427 is saying that
this bug has nothing to do with the copying you've done and is a
separate issue? Shouldn't you just copy the glyphs from Valek's fonts?
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