How to delete localizable entry in font info view

Glyphs
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I have a simple question that how can I delete empty (which can be localized) info entry in Glyphs 3?
e.g. Designer, Vendor, Trademark.

It looks like that no any MINUS button here.

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Hold down the Option key and press the Plus button.

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How can this be scripted?

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Have a look at this: Glyphs.app Python Scripting API Documentation — Glyphs.app Python Scripting API 3.0 documentation

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I’m reviewing with the properties and am confused by how they work. I’m experimenting with existing OFL fonts that already have font info populated. I manually changed the general font property values (designer, manufacturer, etc) in the font info dialog and then saved. Then I queried the font info with this script. The default values displayed from the script are the original default values before I changed them in the font info dialog. I then tried to manually delete the properties/values in the font info dialog and then re-added them with no change to the values returned by the script. What is the relationship between the stored font info properties and how they are queried by script?

fontInfoValueLocalized = None
for fontInfo in font.properties:
	print(fontInfo.key)	
	print(fontInfo.defaultValue)
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Georg, hoping you might be able to point me towards more resources for understanding how to work with font info properties. I reviewed the Glyphs prog guide. See my reply from a couple days ago. I’m trying to dive back into, and re-learn, python and it will take some work.

  1. Where is the default .py dictionary file stored/saved?
  2. Is there a way to list all properties in the default dict so I can find what I don’t know about?
    Regards,
    Jim
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What has that to do with the font info?

Try that:

for fontInfo in Font.properties:
	print(fontInfo.key)
	if hasattr(fontInfo, "values"):
		print(fontInfo.values)
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Georg,
When I was searching through the forum, to find out more about font info, I believe I found a thread that discussed reviewing the .py file to view all of the defaults. I thought this might help me better understand where the unexpected values were originating. Maybe I misunderstood the thread. I’ll work with the python script to see what I can find. Thanks! Jim

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What is the difference and/or relationship between fontInfo.values and fontInfo.defaultValues? When I query fontInfo.values I see the info I added/edited in the fontInfo dialog. However, when I query fontInfo.defaultValues I see mixed info…some from what I added/edited and some I didn’t that I don’t see in the dialog (I think from a prior version.)

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it is “fontInfo.defaultValue” without a “s”.

The defaultValue is whatever entry is set to DFLT or English.