I want to draw words in a single stroke with a pen plotter using mergelines and the cursive font. However, glyphs like d don't connect because the incoming stroke is not present and the downstroke is seperated.
vpype text --font cursive "bird" linemerge show
It's unclear to me how the pickled fonts were generated, and what the process for updating them looks like.
It looks like it'd be a matter of adding a few segments that trace back on themselves, as does happen in some sans-serif fonts.
I want to draw words in a single stroke with a pen plotter using
mergelinesand the cursive font. However, glyphs likeddon't connect because the incoming stroke is not present and the downstroke is seperated.It's unclear to me how the pickled fonts were generated, and what the process for updating them looks like.
It looks like it'd be a matter of adding a few segments that trace back on themselves, as does happen in some sans-serif fonts.