Keyboard mapping a font?

[mwenz]

Hi Gary--not that I can find. And the PDF help file does not shed much light other than to discuss formats that allow/disallow embedding restrictions, etc.

Windows Explorer shows relevant information:



MainType (and likely other font managers) show embeddable status.

Here's the relevant (and only) screen from TT for font parameters:



Take care, Mike
(thanks)

[angelize]

Hi guys, thanks for your responses, I was wondering about being able to embed a font created with TT in a website created with WDMX.

[Gare]

The answer is "yes", Frances, but not necessarily, "Yes, you should."

There is literally no difference in coding between a font you create and any other font you want to embed using Web Designer MX. So in practice, it works.

But just as you need a compelling reason to post a 5MB JPEG image on a website, you need a compelling reason to (sometimes marginally) slow down the loading of your website, if it's "glamour factor", and you don't have a solid artistic and/or commercial reason for embedding a typeface.

The way a font destined for the web needs to be crafted takes time, skill, patience, and a little learning. The very first thing you need to know is about unit height and how a typeface displays on a webpage. If, for example, you build a font whose cap height is 627 units, I think you might be able to image how the font will render onscreen at 12 or 14 points. "The math is wrong", and you'll probably get a line of pixels within the font that is unwanted because the web browser can't reconcile the math.

You are also well-advised to pack everything you can imagine into a typeface used on the web. For example, on the Xara Xone, one of the fonts has a complete set of bulleted numbers and other glyphs you see all the time done as GIF bullets. This means that only one fetch needs to be done to get the font and a lot of the re-occuring dings we have on the pages.

And I'm not an expert on this stuff, but I do know how to do web fonts inexpertly and just plain wrong. I'm still working on one of the fonts we use, the hinting isn't quite right, but all website building is a WIP anyhow, isn't it?

My Best,

Gary

[angelize]

Thanks for this Gary, right now I'm just looking at options and one thing I was thinking is that if a custom font is done well it could give a website a unique look. Of course if not done well it could be quite the opposite!

[Gare]

You are 100% correct in theory!

I mean this sans any sarcasm.

-g-

[staggers]

Hi again.

I've been asked a question I can't answer about this new font.

I must be thick, but the thing I still don't know is this:

In TT, for example, how do I assign one of the new squiggles to, say key combination Alt+f, for example?

How would I find out which 'box' to put the squiggle in? I can see how it all goes for all the ordinary keys (that is, can't, but I don't have to), but how do I find out all the possible key combinations and which keys they map to? Sorry if this sounds obvious, but at the moment it still isn't to me!

Regards

Staggers

[Soquili]

Hi Staggers,

Most programs use the Alt keys and a letter to access menu items for example Alt-f accesses the File Menu in most applications.

I would recommend you stay away from using Alt and Ctrl key combinations because their use will conflict with the Operating System/Application keyboard shortcuts.