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  SOLVED vanilla Window opening 2nd Window
  vanilla • • jesentanadi  

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  Oh, that's a good one. Thanks @frederik!
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  SOLVED Find out what part of a glyph is selected
  scripting fontparts • • jesentanadi  

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  @frederik sorry, didn't realize it's new to FontParts too. I'll give 3.2b a try.
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  SOLVED Unicode Category of Glyph
  unicode • • benedikt  

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  @benedikt FWIW, the glyphNameFormatter in RF has a couple of functions that might be useful. It uses the glyphNamesToUnicodeAndCategories.txt names list which is buried somewhere in RF. This is not the full unicode list (I think CJ and K is not included), but it contains a lot of good stuff. import glyphNameFormatter.reader name = "flyingSaucer" value = 0x1F6F8 # unicode to name print(glyphNameFormatter.reader.u2n(value)) > "flyingSaucer" # name to unicode print(glyphNameFormatter.reader.n2u(name)) > 128760 # unicode to category print(glyphNameFormatter.reader.u2c(value)) > "So" # name to category print(glyphNameFormatter.reader.n2c(name)) > "So"
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  SOLVED Observe point changes/movements?
  observers • • StephenNixon  

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  Makes sense. Thanks so much for your help!
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  SOLVED Add unicode codepoint to newly added glyph.ss01 …
  unicode opentype features stylistic set • • fooness  

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  Dear Frederik, thank you for your answer! Why would an alternate version get a unicode value? It’s not allowed to provide two glyphs with the same unicode value. Thinking from a typesetting point of view: which one should it take? I see, so … there’s no problem here, but it’s actually right that the alternates named e.g. A.alt or A.ss01 don’t have the same unicode value as A itself … thank you for clarifying this. I would recommend you to write an OpenType feature to switch the A to the alternate A.ss01 in InDesign: I see! So it seems I’ll try to read the Robofont page on features and the documentation from Adobe and then I can hopefully figure out what to write in that feature file as now it’s completely empty. I mean, maybe this feature files needs to have lines like the following: # Script and language coverage languagesystem DFLT dflt; languagesystem latn dflt; And afterwards I could manually add what you proposed for A–Z and 0–9 in ss01, ss02, and ss03. feature ss01 { sub A by A.ss01; # ... } ss01; I saw something like A.alt in some free and open source .ufo files and was wondering what it is, i.e. why would I write .alt instead of some styleset like .ss01 … EDIT: I just discovered an article about opentype features on i love typography dot com which lists features like aalt “All alternates“, calt “Contextual alternates“, salt “Stylistic alternates”, et cetera (which I already know from CSS). So I think for another stylistic version of the figures 0–9, salt would be a kinda semantically correct feature name.
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  SOLVED Is there a way to get more specific information about "Updates Found" / external changes notice?
  update • • StephenNixon  

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  As a very belated response, the above code snippet wasn't really helping me, because (if I'm remembering correctly) RoboFont gets into a sort of "locked" state when this alert appears, so I couldn't figure out how to use the diffing script to peer into both states of the file. How I did solve the problem was by removing my files from my auto-syncing Dropbox folder, and simply trusting GitHub and hard drive backups. I believe that the syncing of Dropbox was somehow messing up when there were updates to many files at once, as happens in UFOs.
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  SOLVED Contextual Menu in Glyph View
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  mmm, RF could use the changes I’ve committed to vanilla. see https://github.com/typesupply/vanilla/blob/master/Lib/vanilla/vanillaList.py#L196 for vanilla you can also provide the state, image and if the menu item is enabled.
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  SOLVED Generate font with limited character set
  scripting font generation • • pieterpjotr  

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  @pieterpjotr super enjoy!!
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  SOLVED selection observer
  observers • • timotimo  

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  But then I have to handle all the glyph changes somehow, like this: from mojo.events import addObserver, removeObserver, postEvent class DummyController(object): def __init__(self): self.glyph = CurrentGlyph() addObserver(self, "currentGlyphChanged", "currentGlyphChanged") self.addSelectionObserver() def currentGlyphChanged(self, notification): self.removeSelectionObserver() self.glyph = notification["glyph"] self.addSelectionObserver() postEvent("selectionChanged") def glyphSelectionChanged(self, notification): postEvent("selectionChanged") def addSelectionObserver(self): if self.glyph is not None: self.glyph.addObserver(self, "glyphSelectionChanged", "Glyph.SelectionChanged") def removeSelectionObserver(self): if self.glyph is not None: self.glyph.removeObserver(self, "Glyph.SelectionChanged") class DummyObserver(): def __init__(self): addObserver(self, "selectionChanged", "selectionChanged") def selectionChanged(self, notification): self.glyph = notification["glyph"] if self.glyph is not None: print(self.glyph.selectedPoints, self.glyph.selectedComponents) DummyController() DummyObserver() I was thinking there might be something like this already built in.
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  SOLVED Change Component Indexes
  scripting components • • connor  

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  Wow, thank you * 10000 for the help, Frederik! I really appreciate it.
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  SOLVED Custom inspector in single window mode
  user interface inspector accordion view • • timotimo  

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  Super! Thanks Frederik!
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  SOLVED Transform panel: transform options
  user interface inspector • • frederik  

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  Ah, gotcha. I didn't have “Transform Component” checked. n00b error — thanks!
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  SOLVED Detect unsaved changes via script
  scripting saving • • StephenNixon  

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  Oops; nevermind! Just found out that macOS has a built-in feature to do this exact thing. Just use the shortcut option + command + w.
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  SOLVED OpenType features not working
  font generation opentype features test install • • naorem  

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  @frederik I have mailed you a sample UFO file with the feature issue. Hope you have received it.
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  SOLVED Bezier handle question
  contours outline errors • • rabeu1  

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  @typemytype ahh, good to know. thanks!
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  UNSOLVED Scripting window & folder aliases
  scripting scripting window • • benedikt  

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  euhm, never tried that... but will write it down
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  SOLVED Can I lock and unlock guides via script?
  guidelines • • StephenNixon  

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  oh, typo, Ive edited it out, thanks!
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  SOLVED Can I apply a "smart sort" for Glyph Order via script?
  character set glyph order sorting glyphs • • StephenNixon  

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  Thanks, @gferreira! That was a super helpful suggestion, including the link to the defcon docs. I find that for me, the cannedDesign sort type is seemingly identical to the "Smart Sort" option in Robofont, aside from deleting template glyphs. Still, those are easy enough to re-add manually, and something I don't need to do every time (Add Glyphs -> Import from my "Latin 1" character set... -> then select to "add as template glyphs"). So, the script I'll use is very close to your suggestion, but I prefer this sort type: font = CurrentFont() newGlyphOrder = font.naked().unicodeData.sortGlyphNames(font.glyphOrder, sortDescriptors=[dict(type="cannedDesign", ascending=True, allowPseudoUnicode=True)]) font.glyphOrder = newGlyphOrder
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  SOLVED Link for event object documentation?
  documentation canvasgroup nsevent • • erik  

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  hello Erik, thanks for the feedback. the mojo.canvas page has been updated with more information (including a link to the NSEvent documentation) and code samples. I’m still trying to wrap my head around canvas… haven’t really built anything with it yet. groeten!
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  SOLVED Crash with testinstalled font
  test install • • jo  

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  what RoboFont does related to test install: each test install font path is added to a list in the prefs, on quit RF loops over this list and deinstalls all fonts. When RF crashes, it cannot deinstall those fonts. So the next launch detects those test installed fonts, a popup will appear and RF tries to deinstall them. RoboFont tries to inform users as much as possible on issues happening in the background. Silent fixes are not the best solutions for many cases...