Is this possible? I.e. I have a script that detects overlaps and when it comes a glyph that has a bracket or brace glyph, and finds a positive result there, I want to also report that in the text tab when I display all the glyphs that return positive.
Based on the Glyphs Python API it appears you can do this:
Alternatively, you can set (and read) a list of GSLayer objects. These can be any of the layers of a glyph. OpenType features will be applied after the layers have been changed.
Here’s a quick test I ran to verify this, just adding glyphs or in this case layers to a new tab if there is an active brace layer, but this should work the same for something like if overlaps == True:
:
import re
font.newTab().layers = []
for glyph in font.glyphs:
for layer in glyph.layers:
if re.match('{.*\d}', layer.name) != None:
font.tabs[-1].layers.append(layer)
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