> I am slowly creating a font to be used for tablature ... so far I > have bitmaps of a couple of characters. I'd like to try them out > and get an idea how they look. Is there any way I can replace a > character with a small scaled bitmap?
Not directly. You would have to convert the bitmap to an EPS file, say. You might try potrace to do such a conversion. https://potrace.sourceforge.net/ The FontForge font editor comes with native support for potrace, BTW. Werner