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I am working on a printed book for second graders that teaches cursive handwriting. You may remember this from your school days... the guides that have the dotted line through the center... the little arrows on the characters that teach which direction the curves go...
Here is my problem. The writers use a set of cursive fonts, http://www.schoolhousefonts.com/Schoolhouse/samples.htm to teach from. They come with software to properly align and position the cursive letterforms together, which won't work because I am doing the layout in inDesign. Any ideas on different cursive fonts, or ways of getting cursive fonts to position correctly in inDesign? I have CS4 and CS5 and am using Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

I figured out what their software was doing. It has all the possible placements and adjustments of the cursive letters as different glyphs. What you end up doing to get it to work, is type what you want to be cursive in any text editing program (doesn't work with inDesign though), then run the little program and it switches out each character with the correct glyph. I found this out because if I copy the changed cursive text from textEdit into inDesign unformatted, it displays all the greek and jumbled glyphs. Change it to the cursive font and it looks like it should.
This is a pain but it has to be my workflow... unless someone knows of an Opentype version of the Zaner-Bloser Cursive Set
http://www.schoolhousefonts.com/Schoolhouse/products.htm

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