[CJKUnifonts-devel] [OT, about fontforge] how to merge two curves

[Zhang Weiwu]

Hi. I am recently working on improving the cwTexYen font (part of cwTex
font set) by adding simplified Chinese glyphs to it. I do this with the
hope of having a full Chinese coverage font set for free software font
users, by adding YuanTi, FangSong Ti. cwTexYen is the only free software
Yen (YuanTi) font I know of that can be worked on. I am new to
fontforge. I used to use other curve drawing software like OpenOffice
Draw and Inkscape, they both have a function to get the "superset" of
two curves. This could be useful to combine two strokes into a glyph. I
didn't find this feature in fontforge. I thought "remove overlap"
feature in fontforge is about this but it didn't work (after applied
this feature the two curves are still two). The problem is demonstrated
in the attachment.

Is there a way to "merge" or "get superset" of two curves? Sorry I
should have posted to fontforge mailing list but I happen to be on an
email-only network (rare case) thus don't know how to google out their
mailing list address.

Best regards
Zhang Weiwu

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