In addition to the above:
One way of getting the font/letter/glyph created in Xara into FontLab is to export the letter as ai/eps and then import it into Fontlab. So far so good. The problem with this is that you have to save each single letter as a file and when importing the letter is not positioned in FontLab where it should be and you have to move it.
Using Adobe Illustrator you can copy and paste the glyph into FontLab, which is much easier. When I do this in Xara the glyph is visible in FontLab but is displayed on the background layer. I assume this is because the format of the file in the clipboard is not correct o matching.
Is there any trick to get around this? Can you select in Xara what format to use for the clipboard. Can you paste to the correct layer in FontLab?
Thanks for any advice.
(Yes you could use Illustrator to design the font or do it in FontLab directly. However Xara is much better and easier to use ... and I know Xara better.)