can you create a new font using private character editor that you can type into

Perhaps if you tell us what you are trying to do – why you want special characters, and what properties you want those special characters to have – we can help you achieve what you want. Your private character will not be related to different fonts it will look out of place among the carefully matched designs of the characters provided in the font. However, in the PCE you design a character as a bitmap image, rather than a mathematical description that can be used to generate bitmaps for different sizes (the bitmap is scaled for different sizes, with less than optimal results). Today, what was called a “typeface” is (incorrectly) called a “font”, and one design is used for all sizes of the font. Historically, a character in a single typeface was designed separately for each size of the typeface (which was called a font). In fact, those differences are what make the fonts different. If you look at the glyph for the same character in different fonts, the image of the character is different. You ask “Why should I have to peg a Special Character to a specific pre-existing Font?” In the PCE, you don’t have to: in fact, the default case is that your new character is available in all fonts.īut a character is, by definition, a member of a specific font.

I’m going to start by asking if you mean the Private Character Editor (PCE).

However, if you want to use a proportionally spaced font in Notepad, you can – but only that font (again, Notepad does not support formatting such as multiple fonts at the same time).Īnother point of confusion applies to the Special Character Editor (SCE). You can set the one specific font that Notepad uses to a monospaced font (in fact, the default font is monospaced). “Monospace” refers to a font design in which all the characters are the same width a single character can’t really be a different width from itself in any font. I’m also confused by your reference to monospace characters. If you want to be able to create documents with special characteristics, such as superscript and subscript characters other than those defined by Unicode (which is an international standard), you need to use a program that can apply formatting. It does not support the use of any formatting functions. It does not support the use of multiple character sizes. It does not support the use of multiple fonts.

Can you create a new font using private character editor that you can type into