On ven, 2005-09-30 at 00:30 -0600, Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:

I'm passing on a question I read about on Scribus-L, a list server devoted to a linux desktop publishing program:

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Are there any Linux font editors?

I may need something to make a font. A serious font for linguistics work (IPA characters, plus regular characters, plus typesetting features such as ligatures, various dashes, etc., so the font can be used for publishing books).

Fontlab seems to be the reigning monarch in the Win/Mac world. What is the best font editor currently available in the Linux world?

I think the most common font editor on Linux is Font Forge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/), previously known as PfaEdit. It's available in many distributions as a precompiled, ready to install package.

Ciao

Roberto