I want to make a font with three glyphs, at points U+2195, U+E000, and U+E001. Note that the last two are in the Private Use Area. In the first window I'm asked to select a font. As we discussed in another thread,
http://forum.fontlab.com/sigmaker/why-only-512-glyph-positions-what-about-the-other-65025-unicode-points-t7569.0.html, for some reason, some fonts, when used as a "base" to be modified, don't allow code points at which they have no glyphs to be modified. I don't quite understand this yet. The selected font need not necessarily need to have a glyph at the subject code point. Often, you can select code points that are in a dead region between two glyphs, but then there is a maximum. For many fonts, the maximum is quite low, U+00FF. Anyhow, "Andale Mono" seems to work for the three points I need, so I select it.
Next, I add my glyph at U+E000 and save it as a "single-glyph" font.
Now, I need to add my second glyph at U+E001. I start over again, this time selecting the single-glyph font which I had just created. I add my glyph at U+E001 and save it as a "modified" font.
Now, for my third glyph at U+2195. I start over again, select the two-glyph font which I'd just created, but now I find that my glyph range is limited to U+00FF again. Arghh!!! So I cannot add this glyph.
What's worse, is that when I look at my font in Font Book, at my two-glyph font, it seems to have only the first glyph in it.
What is the correct way to do this? If SigMaker can only add one font, which one of Apple's Font Suite tools could I use to merge them together?
Thank you!
