Is anyone aware of a free and open-source solution for creating OpenType VFs? And yes, I'm well aware of the commercial solutions; I'm not interested in them. Right now, I am aware that FF has some MM support (not OT1.8) and METAFONT can create variable fonts, of course, but again, not of the OpenType variety.
[Addendum: I guess it is possible in some way to do, by creating a file manually, and the using fontmake, but this is extremely painful and not practical. But maybe that is the way to go.]
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Well, essentially, fontmake is a tool for compiling from ufo or glyphs format to OTF. But it has no editing capabilities. So yes, I could, but that thask would be the task of creating a font editor from scratch.
Maybe this is possible with some adaptation from FF's MM support.