Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I couldn't find one more appropriate.

I know someone who needs a font creating.

This will have all the standard stuff, plus a lot of symbols. Some of the symbols would just be modified versions of existing ones. Others have never existed before.

I know that once it's all created by whatever means, the font can then go into something like FontCreator, if it wasn't there already, in order to package it as a font.

As you can tell, I was already a little hazy on that, but where I'm completely stuck is, how can they then map particular key combinations on the keyboard to particular symbols?

Presumably, the key 'a' will produce 'a' in this font, but what about all these others?

The insistence is that the extra symbols MUST be available directly from the keyboard, using some previously unused logical sequence of combinations. But how?

I am completely mystified.



Any help in understanding all this will be VERY much appreciated.

Regards


Staggers.