On Feb 20, 2006, at 2:08 PM, frank gaude' wrote:
Well, Jon, I installed the font in Win XP Pro SP2, opened it in InDesign CS, used the Glyphs feature and ID showed all the musical symbols therein. I can't see anything wrong with it. FontLab shows it to be a good font, no problem with cmap tables. Under the Georgian, 1257 Baltic, Unix/Relcom Cyrillic KOI-8R, and 1252 Latin 1 formats all looked as it should, you just have to know how to handle the E100 - E266 code range. Most Adobe products do.
I did a little more experimenting.
I still could not get at things on my OS X box with that font. I'd also installed gedit to have a standard app to check with also.
I did track down a different .otf font that had some glyphs in the Private Use Area. First of all, OS X seemed happy with it and it's glyphs in the expected locations. Then I ran things under some GTK+ apps. Using gucharmap and gedit I was able to run through the private use area characters in the other font, but not with Emmantaler. The other font also worked for Inkscape then, but not Emmantaler.
The .otf I tried had been made with PfaEdit 1.0, and Emmantaler seems to be done with FontForge 1.0 (the later renaming of PfaEdit).
Anyway, it's looking at the least that the font itself is exposing some base problems. Though there's also a strong possibility that it's actually some problem in the font. So I'll be digging into it to see if I can track anything down in the structure of the font in question.