Names lists in Fog and in FL

[Evertype]

One of the things that really bugs me is how the names list in Fontographer and the names list in FontLab have minor differences.

I always use Fontographer to draw my characters; then I process my fonts with FontLab, which sorts out some problems that Fontographer causes in modern operating systems.

The disconnect between the names lists is annoying; whenever I open a font in Fontlab several characters are duplicated because of nameslist issues.

There are ways of editing the names list in Fontographer; I've been doing it for years on the Mac with ResEdit. I'm considering a serious review of Fog's names list to see if I can fix my own copy.

Has anyone else out there done similar work? Or noticed the problem?

Michael Everson

[Der FontMeister]

Michael,

Good to see your postings here... all I can do is pass this on to the engineering team as there is no work-around...

Jimmy O'Gallagher
FontLab Ltd.

[Evertype]

The workaround is to edit STR#400 in Resorcerer. :-)

[Evertype]

I'd be happy to talk to Engineering about it.

[dse]

Hey, even the unicode team had trouble keeping this one straight.  Please make sure you look up the standard somewhere.

[Evertype]

I'm, um, one of the authors of the standard.