Hi Ferdinand, >> I want to create a small set (say >> 5-10 symbols) of custom glyphs and want these symbols to be >> part of the alphabet of a fictional language. I also want to >> assign unused unicode values to these symbols and want these >> symbols to appear on my application as well as the terminal >> when I press specific keys.
Here's how font rendering works in gtk on linux (I hope I have this right): - gtk uses Cairo to draw on the screen - Cairo uses Pango to do draw text - Pango does layout and final rendering, but uses freetype2 to do the rasterisation from the font file - freetype2 uses fontconfig to find font files from names like "sans 12" Other platforms are slightly different. On Windows and OS X, pango uses the host drawing system to rasterise glyphs. So to answer your question, you need to make a new font containing your new glyphs. There are quite a few font editing systems, I've not used any myself but I understand fontforge is popular: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ Take an existing open font and add your new glyphs somewhere. Next, install the font, details will vary with your system. On linux you can bundle the font with your app and use the fontconfig env vars to add it to the search system, l I think. Finally, depending on where you added it to the font, you should be able to type your characters with various key combinations. You can also edit key maps I think, though I've never tried. John _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
