Making your own TT fonts?

[Paul Winkler]

I've always been curious to try making my own fonts, preferably
TrueType. Does anyone know what tools are available for Linux? I haven't
found much so far...

What I'd really like to be able to do is to take a scanned image of an
alphabet, manipulate it in GIMP, then somehow convert it into a font.
The last part of the process is a big blank to me.

Regards,

PW