Changeset 99

Timestamp:

10/28/07 21:38:26 (15 months ago)

Author:

verbosus

Message:

Automatic Text: no longer sort glyphs by Unicode name in main font, but creates a temporary copy of the font to order them. Thanks, Karsten Luecke!

Files:

• hacks/trunk/automatic_text.py (modified) (3 diffs)

hacks/trunk/automatic_text.py

@@ -30 +30 @@
 
 __author__ = "Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>"
-__version__ = "0.1"
+__version__ = "0.2"
 __svnid__ = "$Id$"
 __license__ = "Python"
+__contributors__ = [
+    "Claudio Piccinini <http://www.tht.it/>"
+    "Karsten Luecke <http://www.kltf.de/>"
+    ]
 
 UPPERCASE = "A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z".split()
@@ -163 +167 @@
 
 def get_all_glyphs():
-    # sort the glyphs by Unicode
+    # generate a temp font so we can sort its glyphs
+    # by Unicode name without damaging the original
+    tempfont = Font(fl.font)
+    fl.Add(tempfont)
+    tempfontid = fl.ifont
     fl.CallCommand(fl_cmd.FontSortByUnicode)
 
     # build a string with all the characters
     glyphs = []
-    for i in range(len(fl.font)):
+    for i in range(len(tempfont)):
         n = fl.font[i].name
         if n not in ['.notdef', '.null', 'CR']:
             glyphs.append(get_glyph_name(fl.font[i].name))
+
+    # close the temp font
+    tempfont.modified = 0
+    fl.Close(tempfontid)
+
     return glyphs
 
@@ -198 +211 @@
 
 def generate(glyph_set, glyph_name=None):
-    # sort the glyphs by Unicode
-    fl.CallCommand(fl_cmd.FontSortByUnicode)
-
     # open metrics window
     fl.CallCommand(fl_cmd.WindowNewMetrics)