Egyptian OpenType tool documentation
This tool generates OpenType tables for a specified Egyptian Hieroglyphic TrueType font as a Microsoft Volt project.
The normal workflow to produce an Egyptian Hieroglyphic OpenType font using this tool is as follows:
- Prepare a TrueType font with the following characters
- Basic Latin
- Egyptian Hieroglyphic [13000–1342F]
- Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls [13430–1343F]
The font should also include:
- Hieroglyphic shaping glyphs [details to follow]
- Variant sizes for Egyptian Hieroglyphics [details to follow]
- Update config.py for current project
- Run the tool >python eotgen.py
- Open the ttf file written by eotgen in VOLT
- Import the VOLT project written by eotgen
- Compile the font in VOLT (note, VOLT may fail to compile on the first attempt)
- Save the font
- Install and test the font
Additional documentation forthcoming