Copying the List View

Glyphs
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I would like to be able to highlight entries in List View and be able to copy the entire line(s) of information to TextMate but I cannot find a way to do this. Do we perhaps have a script for this, or can it be enabled in the app?

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This is a very simple Python script and in fact described in this introductory tutorial:
https://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/scripting-glyphs-part-1

3

Thanks Eric. So now, since I am not a Python programmer, let me ask: if I want to print only a range of ID numbers, for instance 1000 through 1090, how should the following code be modified to do that?

for myGlyph in Glyphs.font.glyphs:
print myGlyph.name, myGlyph.category, myGlyph.subCategory, myGlyph.unicode

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What do you mean by ID numbers? Just count from 1000 and put it in the line next to the glyph information?

You add count=1000 At the top and inside the loop you add a count += 1 (the += operator adds what is on its right side to the variable on the left). And of course, you a count At a convenient place in the print statement.

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In List view, the very first column header is “ID”.

Now, as I said I’m not a programmer, to my question? Bearing that in mind, a general explanation as to how to write it isn’t helpful at all.

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What do you need the ID for? It is just the order number inside the font file. You can access it by glyph.glyphId(), and you can define a range with brackets after the list name, like this:

for myGlyph in Glyphs.font.glyphs[1000:1090]:
    print myGlyph.glyphId(), myGlyph.name, myGlyph.category, myGlyph.subCategory, myGlyph.unicode

This is called slicing. [50:] means from 50 to the end, [:50] everything from the beginning until the fiftieth item.

You don’t need to be a programmer. Getting started with some Python scripting is easy. Give it a try, it will come in handy very often.

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I don’t need the ID; it’s just a convenient way to reference the range of glyphs.

I don’t think scripting is much different than programming. I understand it would be helpful for me to know how to do it, but learning it takes time, which I always seem to be short of.

Thanks for the code; that’s just what I need.

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Scripting is simimilar to programming but much easier. Learning to write scripts, takes a few hours. Learning to program a few month. Have a look at the python tutorials on our website.