glyphOrder (custom parameter)

Scripting
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Hi, I’ve set the font’s glyphOrder via scripting:
font.customParameters[‘glyphOrder’] = [‘a’,‘b’, ‘c’… etc]
– I can see it set in the info window but I can’t see the empty character slots in the Font, should I do something else?
– I guess if I set it in the ‘font’ info panel I won’t need to set it again in masters and instances, is this correct?
Thanks!

2

It seems to me what you want is a list filter. Slots in font view are only shown when the actual glyphs have been created.

3

I added my custom glyphOrder and created the new glyphs with

newGlyph = GSGlyph(gname)
font.glyphs.append(newGlyph)

What I don’t get now is the Unicode for the new glyphs added this way.
Is there a way of doing this? (if the names are “friendly/nice” names it would be good to have the unicode added automatically as when you do it by hand through the menu), maybe I’m doing it wrong?
thx!

4

That’s what happens unless you have custom naming on in Font Info > Other Settings.

5

I don’t have that setting on, and the new glyphs generated the way I wrote don’t get the unicode… :-/

6

Which build number?

7

latest, 1034

8

I see, add this line:

newGlyph.updateGlyphInfo()
9

Updating the glyphInfo worked, thanks.
The only issue I have now is that I don’t get the unicode in some glyphs, my guess is that in Glyphs they’re not named that way (or they’re not in GlyphData.xml), so my (hopefully last ; ) question is if I can get the Glyphs ‘nice name’ and ‘production name’ given a unicode (hex and or dec).
like:
glyph.niceName(2196) returns -> northWestArrow, uni2196, (and alternate names maybe)

[FORGET the previous paragraph, I’ll parse the GlyphData.xml file, it’s all there]

(and another related question, can I change the background font in gray –in the font window?)
Cheers!

10

No need to parse the GlyphData.xml file. For example, take a look at:

glyphInfoForUnicode(Unicode)

e.g.,

glyphInfo = Glyphs.glyphInfoForUnicode('2196')
# glyphInfo.name == u'northWestArrow'
# glyphInfo.unicode == u'2196'
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thanks!