VI. Adding Other Tables

Introduction

• Tables discussed in this chapter

Font identification

• Family names
• Standard strings
• Non-standard strings
• Upgrading an existing font or family

Font descriptors

• Standard descriptors
• Adding the table
• Adding descriptors
• Editing descriptors
• Managing descriptors

OS/2

• Adding and editing the table
• Page 1
• Page 2

The FOND resource

System requirements

PostScript compatibility

• Formats
• Viewing names
• Editing other information
• Rebuilding the table

Font header

Stripping excess tables

Other TrueEdit editors

• Horizontal metrics
• Ideal metrics
• Device metrics
• Header
• Instruction control values
• Font structure support
  • Location
  • Maximum profile

The hex editor

• Ideas
  • Control point table formats
  • Ligatures with more than three components
  • Other lookup formats
  • Contextual justification
  • Indic-style rearrangement
  • More powerful glyph effects
  • New tables
• Using the hex editor

Summary