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this button next. Of course, you can choose to add Bold,
Italic, and BoldItalic styles in any order you want, so you
can choose Italic next if you feel like being a rebel. To
continue with the example, just click on the Bold button and
add fonts in order. Clicking on the Bold button brings up the
file selection dialog again, just like it did for Plain. This time,
choose the Bold style, which in this example is “Nova-
Bold.” Once you have accepted the file selection dialog box,
the name “Nova-Bold” appears next to the Bold button, and
the Save Family button becomes active. This is because
you could save the family at this point and be finished. This
is useful when you don’t have all four styles to merge into a
family.
Style Merger bolds the Italic button next, so just
choose “Nova-Oblique” as the italic face, and “Nova-
BoldOblique” for the bold italic face. If you look at the
Style Merger window, you can see that each style button
has a name beside it, indicating that you can build a
complete family now. And sure enough, Style Merger has
bolded the Save Family button to tell you to do so. When
you click on that button, a dialog box appears asking where
you want to save the family and what it should be called.
Typically, Style Merger suggests names like “Nova-Normal.
fam.” This will be the name of the suitcase file Style
Merger creates. The part of the name before the period is
what the font will be called in your font menus (it becomes
the name of the FOND resource). For instance, if you
accept the name “Nova-Normal.fam,” Style Merger
creates a file named “Nova-Normal.fam,” and when you
install that new family, you’ll see “Nova-Normal” in your
font menus. If you want to see just “Nova” you should tell
Style Merger to save the family as “Nova.fam.” After you
press “OK” in the standard file dialog box, Style Merger
builds the family and saves it. Then it cleans out all the font
selections, and is ready to build another family. The window
now looks exactly as it did when the program first started.
If you just want to build one family, you can quit now. To do
Fontographer User's Manual
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