Building accents?

joanca

Hi,

This "Building Accents" code (almost 100% taken from the RFab site) is not working and I can't figure out why. It runs apparently fine but the glyphs are not updated, they keep empty.

Any thought? Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Joancarles

# from robofab.world import CurrentFont
from robofab.tools.toolsAll import readGlyphConstructions
# from random import randint

f = CurrentFont()

import string

theList = [
    'ecaron',
    'acircumflex'
    ]

con = readGlyphConstructions()
theList.sort()

def accentify(f, preflight=False):
    print 'start accentification', f.info.fullName
    slots = con.keys()
    slots.sort()
    for k in theList:
        if k[-3:] in [".sc"]:
            isSpecial = True
            tag = k[-3:]
            name = k[:-3]
        else:
            isSpecial = False
            tag = ""
            name = k
        parts = con.get(name, None)
        if parts is None:
            print k, "not defined?"
            continue
        base = parts[0]
        accents = parts[1:]
        f.generateGlyph(k, preflight=preflight)
        # f[k].mark = 100 + randint(-20, 20)
        f[k].autoUnicodes()
        f[k].update()
    f.update()

accentify(f)
print 'done'</pre>

[I just prettified your code example]

frederik

its idd not working in the current build
this will be working in the next update, this is scheduled soon :)

joanca

Apart from the refresh of the font Overview, the anchors are ignored when placing the accents. It just appends the components ignoring the anchors placement.
Can you confirm this?

frederik

and its maybe better to use font.compile since you already know the base glyph and accents

# in your example
# replace f.generateGlyph(k, preflight=preflight) by

f.compileGlyph(k, baseName=base+tag, accentNames=accents, preflight=preflight)

frederik

the font overview doesn't get updated, this will be solved in the next version.....

side note:

# glyph.mark takes a tuple of 4 
r = 1
g = 0
b = 0
a = 1
glyph.mark = (r, g, b, a)