F-strings in Font Info?

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I cannot find the topic, but I’m pretty sure that I wrote that It was possible to use f-strings to use variable in some field in Font Info ? I’m wrong ? If not, someone can explain me how to do it ?

Thanks

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What is you use case? Dynamically insert data into some of the Font Info entries? What data and into which entries?

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For example in my exports I’m used to add fileName CP.
For now I wrote this script to auto set them based on FamilyName and Style Name.
It add space between family Name and Style Name, and replace spaces by hyphen.

font = Glyphs.font
for instance in font.instances:
	instance.customParameters["fileName"] = f"{instance.familyName} {instance.name}".replace(" ", "-")
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I think that isn’t fully implemented, yet.

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Half of this is implemented. You can use tokens in the info fields like this:

{{{familyName}}}-{{{name}}}

this will check if the instance or the font return something for familyName and name and if so, replace that token with the result. That will produce a very similar result except that spaces inside the family name or instance name will not be replaced with a hyphen.

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