Illustrator will do you a rather nice calligraphic pen tool - of course you can get that in Photoshop too, but the vector approach means you can have it at any size - and of course it's fun to try new ways of doing things ... I used the graphic tablet to draw the alphabet.

Illustrator is of course well-known as a leading program in the graphics industry. I've never really looked at it before, because I never moved in circles where I met anyone who could get me started, and it was anyway pretty expensive if you're buying it from scratch with your own money and didn't have any special discount via an educational establishment, or an upgrade from an earlier version: but several years ago I did get Macromedia's competitive product, FreeHand, as part of a graphics 'Studio' package, along with their pixel editing, 3-D and fonts programmes, so I had grasped at least the basics ...

Having got the shapes of the letters in Illustrator, it's just a question of pasting them into Fontographer, getting it to do an automatic 'trace' which produces the paths and control points, and then tweaking the result for as long as you can give it, till things look right - or at least usable for now ...