Select Glyphs in the Insert menu to add glyphs to the font. This option is available when the Font panel is active.
Press CTRL + Space bar to show the glyph name completion helper.
FontCreator allows you to add ranges of glyph names. If a glyph name matches a Unicode character, that character will be inserted. These ranges are supported:
•a-z
•uni2000-uni20FF
•uni0391.pcap-uni03A9.pcap
•u2000-u20FF
•u102000-u1020FF
•$2000-$20FF
•0x2000-0x20FF
These are not allowed:
•Cdoublestruck-Hdoublestruck
•elevencircled-twentycircled
Generate Composites with a Formula
For each glyph name you can also provide a formula for generating the glyph outlines as a composite. Just provide the glyph name, followed by an equal sign and the glyph names separated by a plus sign. Don’t use spaces as that would be treated as a new glyph you want to insert. Here is an example:
f_i_j=f+i+j
It will add a glyph named f_i_j and will make a composite that is made out of these glyphs: f, i, and j.
Note: in some cases it might be unclear if a hyphen is part of a glyph name or meant as a range indicator. Then either disable the Ranges option, or provide the name and formula within double quotation marks, as shown here:
"beh_yehhamzaabove-arab.fina=alefmaksura_alefmaksura-arab.fina+symboldotbelowmod-arab+arabichamzacomb"
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