Find/replace side bearing formulas?

Glyphs
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I would find it useful to have an option or tool that would let me replace suffixes in sidebearing references when I replace them in glyph names. For example if I’ve made small caps from my regular caps, I want the left sidebearing of C.c2sc to be set to O.c2sc, not O. Is there a way to automate the process of changing those?

2

This is probably best done with a script.

3

Paging Dr. Mekkablue…

4

I tried but neither of these methods seem to have a lasting effect on the metrics key:

g.setRightMetricsKey_( “=X” )
g.rightMetricsKey = “=X”

I can read out g.rightMetricsKey right afterwards, and it will yield “=X”. But in the GUI, there is no change, and ctrl-cmd-M will use the original value.

5

Oh, now I get it, the metrics keys that count seem to be on the layer level. Will try again.

6

eliason
There is a new script “Find and Replace in Metrics Keys” in my GitHub repository. You’ll find it in the Metrics subfolder.

7

The metrics key is stored in the glyph or the layer. this makes it a bit tricky.

8

The script now focusses on the layer. Setting the key on the glyph level produced no visible result. But I only tested with single-layer font, I must admit.

9

If the layer has a key, the key of the glyph is not visible.