Adding Italics Version to Fast-Font

[rogueaskywalker]

Hello,

I would like to apply the fast-font feature to my preferred e-reader font. I managed to get it to work for the regular font but I do not know how to get it to work with the italics. Can you please help?

I have uploaded the original fonts here.

[rogueaskywalker]

I did a bit more work trying to apply the fast-reading. I think I have it about 90% right. But I'm curious how to get it to work better with text that is already bold. Currently, if the base text is meant to be bold, then the entire line retains the same boldness. Does that mean I need to make a set of glyphs that have a different boldness as well? I've uploaded what I have done to the same drive.

[Born2Root]

Hi,

I just looked at your results, which are really cool! Congratulations!

Regarding your question: The boldness of already existing bold-formatted text is actually a problem. I also thought about that for a long time, but there is unfortunately no 100% perfect solution.

The only way is, as you already suggested, to add an extra set of glyphs with an even stonger boldness. There exist several fonts, that have a bold and a extra-bold subset of glyphs. I am pretty sure, your desired typewriter font does not directly offer such an extra-bold subset. That means you would have to edit the glyphs in a tool like FontLab and make them bolder. Unfortuantely that probably also changes the character spacing. That's why it is not perfect. It would be much more streamlined if you use a font that is already prepared for bold and extra-boldness.

Afterwards you need to also adjust the feature-code:

• add a new category for the extra bold glyphs. For instance @AZE = [a.ebold-z.ebold A.ebold-Z.ebold];
• add a new rulest of calt, that checks if a glyph is bold and make it extra bold. You would have to first do the extra-boldness part and afterwards the "normal" boldness. That means you probably have to duplicate the whole code, what's also not that nice from the programmers perspective.

But just give it a try! 😉