This is a brand new subject for me and I would appreciate any advice please. In another thread (re Tin Whistle Tablature) I volunteered to try and create a new font incorporating the two octave lower range of the tin whistle. In this basic scheme typing the letters CDEFGABc (and then selecting the new Font) would give a graphic of the fingering for each of the notes, a lot like WinDings I guess.

So far so good, I've created a .BMP file containing the fingering for each of the notes in the two octaves, including all the accidebtals.

I've downloaded a shareware program from High-Logic known as the Font Creator Program. I had a fairly extensive play with this last night and creating basic new fonts is pretty easy - you simply import the .BMP images into bobxes labelled A,B,C ...a, b, c etc.. But I'm having real trouble with the sizing, particularly my desire to minimise the width of the font elements. In order to insert this tavlature under a line of printed music it needs to be the same width as each musical note (roughly). The proportions are similar to a cigarette standing upright.By way of analogy it is similar to the letter I occupying the same space as the letter W using conventional text fonts.

Has anybody had any experience in using this or any other font creation program please?

Regards, John

PS I stole this idea from a whistle tablature font known as Penny Whistle, but unfortunately it isn't as musically robust as it could be, and its syntax isn't readily compatible with ABC notation.