Anyone know a similar script to this "spacing" one

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Used this “Selection & HH * HHOO * OO to Tab” script in Glyphs 2, but tried finding as current a version as possible, and it doesn’t seem to be functioning now in Glyphs 3.

Anyone know a similar script out there?

Thanks.

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You can download Wei Huang’s scripts via plugin manager. Especially these scripts might work for you:
Show Each Glyph in Context
Show Each Glyph in Context (New Tab)

Also you can search for new scripts in there

https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/new-thing-glyphs-scripts-index/23202

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Do you mean the script from Mark Frömberg’s Scripts? It looks like it should be fairly straightforward to update it for Glyphs 3.

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Here is an updated version that you can run from the Macro Panel:

import GlyphsApp
import vanilla

Doc = Glyphs.currentDocument
Font = Glyphs.font
selectedLayers = Font.selectedLayers
listOfGlyphNames = [ thisLayer.parent.name for thisLayer in selectedLayers ]
print(listOfGlyphNames)
ListJoined = "/" + "/ ".join(listOfGlyphNames).replace(' ', '')

class OpenTab(object):
	def __init__(self):
		self.w = vanilla.FloatingWindow((500, 100), "Open Tab:")
		self.w.myTextBox = vanilla.TextBox((10, 10, -10, 40), "Open Tab wit these guys:")
		self.w.editText = vanilla.EditText((10, 30, -100, 50), ListJoined  + "\n/H/H/Placeholder/H/H/O/O/Placeholder/O/O\n/n/n/Placeholder/n/n/o/o/Placeholder/o/o", sizeStyle='small', callback=self.editTextCallback)
		self.w.myButton = vanilla.Button((410, 30, -10, 20), "Do it!", sizeStyle='small', callback=self.buttonCallback) 
		self.w.setDefaultButton( self.w.myButton )
		self.w.open()

	def editTextCallback(self, sender):
		print("text entry:", sender.get())
		
	def buttonCallback(self, sender):
		characters = self.w.editText.get()
		print(characters)
		Glyphs.currentDocument.windowController().addTabWithString_( characters )
		self.w.close()
		
OpenTab()
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Thank you for the references @obiobik. Will check those out.

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Thanks much for pulling this together @FlorianPircher! Yes, you’re correct, it was from the scripts you referred to. Will try it out.

Mark did have a note on his Git page that most of them were outdated. That was the only one I tried (so far) from the group. Perhaps there are other popular ones that may benefit from an update at some point.

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Where was that script?

You can do that with placeholders though. No script necessary.

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Here:

And there is also a version with placeholders:

Both Python 2, but trivially convertible to Python 3 with 2to3. Not sure if @Mark still wants to maintain the repository. Some of the scripts are easy to convert, some require more work.

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Thanks for pinning me. Indeed those scripts is unfortunately not well maintained. I should really do a session and bing the script to the 21st century (and also add more usefull things)

Hope I can find some time, soon. Otherwise PRs are welcome, as well.

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