Hi Staggers—

Bill provided some good links there.

As they apply to Type Tool, what you might want to do is assign squiggles to extended keyboard registers.

If you're not familiar with this, some (but not all) typefaces carry the ¼, ½, and ¾ fractions. Obviously, if you can read what I've written, your browser supports a typeface with these extended characters. Other extended characters are daggers, ellipses, guillemots (French quote marks), and about 20 or more neat glyphs.

The point I'm making here is you take your squiggles and assign them to these registers. Set the button at top right on your font to DECIMAL instead of NAME, and you'll clearly see the key codes, for example, the ellipse slot is 133 (you press Alt, tap 0133, release Alt) Then to access the squiggles, you have your client:

1.) Hold Alt.

2.) Type out a four number sequence on the num keypad.

3.) Release the Alt key.

Right now, with the font you're seeing on the forum, try 0162....it will produce a ¢ (cents) symbol.

Then you can charge your client extra for a key guide to the typeface.

—Gary