Installing Custom Gyphs

[Blended Bird]

I'm new to Ukelele and have created my own set of glyphs using Glyphs 3, but i have no idea how to take these glyphs and plug them into a custom keyboard on Ukelele. My files are in .otf and .woff, but this is as far as I've been able to get. any help would be gresatly appreciated. 

[Tom Gewecke]

Have you put your glyphs on Uncode code points? That’s necessary. Then you just put those codepoints on the keys in Ukelele.

[David Perry]

Do you even need a custom keyboard? For example, if you placed one of your custom glyphs in the font location normally occupied by a lowercase ‘a’, then you simply type an a and change the font to your custom one. If you put the glyphs into other locations (that is, not slots normally occupied by regular letters and numbers), then you may need a keyboard. You will need to know the Unicode values that you assigned to each of your custom glyphs.  If you did not give them Unicode numbers, or do not know what this involves, you need to read up on this topic; it’s not a Ukelele issue per se.

The Ukelele manual is quite thorough about constructing keyboards; usually the best procedure is to start with an existing keyboard and modify it. 

On Dec 6, 2022, at 5:10 PM, Blended Bird <blend...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm new to Ukelele and have created my own set of glyphs using Glyphs 3, but i have no idea how to take these glyphs and plug them into a custom keyboard on Ukelele. My files are in .otf and .woff, but this is as far as I've been able to get. any help would be gresatly appreciated. 

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[Sorin Paliga]

On 7 Dec 2022, at 00:34, 'David Perry' via Ukelele Users <ukelel...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

usually the best procedure is to start with an existing keyboard and modify it. 

Definitely, yes. Beginners should ALWAYS start with „New from current input source”, test how it works, how dead keys work, read the basic things etc. It is how I began many years ago. Unfortunately, many ask things without experimenting a minute or have the ambition to build an entirely new keylayout from scratch. A keylayout is not something trivial or simple to do, it is a quite complex mechanism which interacts with the system any time we are writing something. UKELELE offers a friendly interface for a complex issue.

Before UKELELE, I worked with a less friendly interface, it is still active:

I created the first version of my most complex keylayout for linguistic and dialectal transcriptions, then refined it with UKELELE. It was really tedious, I worked several months and revised the result over years, but it was worth doing it because I understood how things work.

Maybe this note is useful for others.