New tab with sorted glyphs

Scripting
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Hey there,

I’m writing a script using part of Rainer’s script Report Highest and Lowest Glyphs that generates a list of the tallest glyphs in font until they get to its capHeight and the lowest glyphs until they reach the baseline.

I can access the name of the glyph but I’m not sure how to open a new tab with this. I’ve experienced before that, if I translate these glyphs into strings those glyphs that don’t have a Unicode value wouldn’t be in the new tab’s text. Any idea how to use these data that I already have to open a new tab with these characters?

Thanks!

2

There are several script in Rainer repo that show how to do that.

3

You can use one of the snippets from the Python for Glyphs repository, I think it is simply tab (the three letters) followed by a tab (the key on the left side of your keyboard).

4

Thank you so much, Rainer. I’ve managed to do what I wanted. I forgot about the / trick before the name of the glyph so I could add the slash before the name and then open a new tab with it.

Also, I have another question about something I’m not used to. (I don’t want to bother with a lot of new posts)
I want to get the Glyph object of these glyphs I’ve sorted and, while Font.selection returns this:

 (
    "GSGlyph <0x7fbabdf041c0>: A"
)

If I append a GSGlyph of each glyph of my sorted list to a new list of GSGlyph objects like this newList.append(GSGlyph('A')) it returns a different kind of object I can’t use as a glyph:

[
<GSGlyph "A" with 0 layers>
]

I would appreciate very much help in this sense since I would like to use this data to create proofs.

Thank you so much.

5

Not sure what you want to do…? But here is some info that may be useful:

  1. Font.selection gives you a tuple, not a list.
  2. GSGlyph('A') creates a new GSGlyph object in memory (not in a font yet).
  3. Font.glyphs['A'] returns the glyph A of Font.

What do you need the list of glyphs for?

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Oh, thanks! Well what I would like to have is a tuple with these glyphs just like Font.selection has.

Since I have a sorted list of glyphs’ names I thought I could create it using their names.

7

Thanks for your help @mekkablue. It solved the problem by understanding that what I needed was the glyph of the point 3.

Thanks again.