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    • Colo-in-NYC

      SOLVED Components best practices
      General Questions • components interpolation • • Colo-in-NYC  

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      okaytype

      A few other potential issues: Path directions can change, eg flip a component horizontally Rounding can become an issue, especially if going small or thin Subsetting is a potential issue, depending on the method Also worth knowing that any component with a transformation (scale, rotate, flip, skew, etc) is automatically decomposed when the font is generated.
    • JustJoeDesign

      SOLVED Slanter double and triple slanting components
      Extensions • components italics • • JustJoeDesign  

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      gferreira

      hello @JustJoeDesign, thanks for the note. it’s fixed in the roboDocs fork, update coming soon to Mechanic…
    • benedikt

      SOLVED RComponent.position not working
      Problems & Bugs • components fontparts • • benedikt  

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      frederik

      component.position will be removed in future version, as it was a bug :)
    • bahman

      SOLVED RGlyph.area method only works on glyphs with contours.
      Problems & Bugs • components pens • • bahman  

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      bahman

      @gferreira Thanks Gustavo, this is the solution I used too in the meanwhile. @frederik Looking forward to get the update!
    • RafaŁ Buchner

      UNSOLVED 'sorting' script. Not sure about pen
      General Questions • contours components pens • • RafaŁ Buchner  

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      RafaŁ Buchner

      Hey guys, I created a small script that makes sorting contours easy (at least for me) https://gist.github.com/RafalBuchner/ff73b03d1c2970182d7dbe1d6060d32b Everyone, feel free to use that. I'm not sure about the usage of the Pens though: is drawing in rearrangeOrder function done accordingly to the proper way of using pen-protocol? I was improvising a bit and I'm not sure about it. I'm working from time to time with point labels. The pen object created by me is deleting data like that: Is there any good way to make sure that when redrawing the glyph none of the data like that will be erased? Best, R
    • martin

      SOLVED compileGlyph and glyphConstruction
      General Questions • components glyph construction accented glyphs • • martin  

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      martin

      @gferreira thank you, that's perfect. I also noticed you added a my favorite autoUnicodes() function :)
    • bahman

      UNSOLVED Two request regarding composites and connecting nodes
      Feature Requests • user interaction contours components • • bahman  

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      frederik

      There is no other way :) if the point doesn't align exactly, some points need to be moved and shifted. RF opts to modify the last point (and offcurve) of the contour that is being dragged. great!!
    • RafaŁ Buchner

      SOLVED question: contours and components inside some rect
      General Questions • scripting contours components • • RafaŁ Buchner  

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      gferreira

      @RafaŁ-Buchner you’re right :) better to use the boolean glyph method then.
    • connor

      SOLVED Change Component Indexes
      General Questions • scripting components • • connor  

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      connor

      Wow, thank you * 10000 for the help, Frederik! I really appreciate it.
    • thom

      G.copy
      General Questions • scripting components • • thom  

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      thom

      Great, this works! Thanks!
    • nina

      Component Preview Outline
      General Questions • user interface components • • nina  

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      nina

      Sorry I didn’t reply earlier. I really like the new configuration! Will gladly wait for the implementation. The white outlines are maybe a bit too disturbing for some use cases.
    • jo

      Component transformations
      General Questions • user interface components • • jo  

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      frederik

      oh, nice little bug, will be solved in the next update. It fails when ever you add a floating number which is not nice for transformations. thanks
    • qkeave

      Checking for component objects.
      General Questions • scripting components • • qkeave  

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      qkeave

      Thank u Jens!
    • jens

      Find transformed components
      General Questions • scripting components • • jens  

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      frederik

      A robofab component will have a transformation attribute in the next version.
    • jens

      Building ligatures
      Feature Requests • components • • jens  

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      frederik

      Ive been working for a while on a "glyph builder" thing This will be a extension, I doubt if it would be embedded in RoboFont, since it's making design decisions.
    • jens

      Transform Components
      Feature Requests • components • • jens  

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      frederik

      It's disabled by default cause transforming multiple glyphs can end up with a double transformation on glyphs with components, one time by the referenced glyph and other one by transforming the component itself.
    • andreas

      SOLVED Anchors
      General Questions • components glyph construction accented glyphs anchors • • andreas  

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      gferreira

      hi @jhera, there are multiple ways to build accented glyphs in RoboFont. these are described here: Building accented glyphs have you tried using the Glyph Construction extension? in 2019 you don’t really need anchors to position diacritics anymore :) you can still use them (with or without underscore), but you can also use guidelines, variables, vertical metrics attributes, reference positions, etc. have a look at the docs & give it a try!
    • jo

      Undo Add Component in Layer
      Feature Requests • layers components metrics • • jo  

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      frederik

      fixed thanks
    • jo

      Anchor behaviour
      Feature Requests • user interaction components anchors • • jo  

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      mathieu-christe

      Jo, thanks for the script which I'll use in the meantime. Frederik, thank you for listening and offering a built-in solution.
    • thom

      Add component from layer
      Feature Requests • layers components ufo3 • • thom  

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      frederik

      This will change dramatically when UFO3 gets implemented (don't know when yet...) RoboFont will follow the spec so components will refer to glyphs from the same layer.