Fontself can handle any type of character, including commas, apostrophes or all diacritical marks.
The “magic” that makes the characters end up in the right place lies in the use of at least one auxiliary line, which must be called “baseline” and is the baseline for all characters. In my example, I have divided the characters into two lines, so I also need two baselines.
If you want to create characters to an already existing character set, then it is also not important that the new characters get the correct size. For this, you create the dummy square, which must have 70% of the font size.
In the “Layers” window, I have assigned the Unicode names to the diacritical characters. And this is what my self-written Javascripts (fontself helper) does for me: Free Javascript for Illustrator: Font-Outline-with-Names.jsx
and Free Javascript for Illustrator: Rename-Abc2Unicode.jsx
My file and font are attached as an example. Good luck. Jens.
Archiv.zip (243.8 KB)