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Curious what you did in FontForge to merge IM Fell Great Primer Italics into Doves Type Regular. (As I'd very much like to use Doves, e.g., for an e-reader font, but I do want to have italics for such purposes.)

I made a native attempt in FontForge (just doing 'merge fonts'), which (unsurprisingly) didn't work.

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It’s a bit of a blackout when I try to recall it, haha. I should figure it out and write it up.

If it’s useful: As far as I can recall it involved simply changing the font family to match, i.e. “Dovesfell”, and then exporting the regular and the italic. The OS font system then figures out that they belong together.

The scale is slightly different and the linespacing too. Did like a 90% rescale on one and 95% on the other? And then there was something to change in the Metrics window to make the linespacing identical.

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