Pasting copied glyphs into classes

Glyphs
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Suggestion: it would be helpful if Glyphs could recognize when I have copied multiple glyphs from the font window, that I intend them to be pasted as glyph names if pasting into a pane on the Features tab of the Font Info.

In other words:

  1. Select multiple glyphs and Copy (cmd-C) – say, /k and /kcommaaccent.
  2. Go to Font Info-Features and try to paste (cmd-V) – say, in a new “@k” class.

Result: Nothing, since the copy was of glyphs but the field expects text.

Desired result: “/k/kcommaccent” (or even better “k kcommaaccent”) appears.

I recognize that the copying and pasting I want can be achieved by doing a Copy Glyph Names rather than a regular copy. But it would be convenient if the software could make the obvious conversion for me

2

Msybe I’m missing something, but it seems to work for me. The only additional task is to replace the “/” with a space after pasting.

3

right, and you can do the last step with a simple find and replace command.

additionally: mekkablue wrote a script that creates a class right from your selected glyphs, be sure to check that out:
https://github.com/mekkablue/Glyphs-Scripts/tree/master/OpenType

4

Try this https://github.com/mekkablue/Glyphs-Scripts/blob/master/OpenType/Make%20OT%20Class%20 from%20selected%20glyphs.py

5

Or you can try the OpenType > Make OT Class from selected glyphs script from https://github.com/mekkablue/Glyphs-Scripts

6

to not confuse you, the last 3 answers are all referring to the same script :wink:

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To explain this a bit. If you copy in the font view, it puts the glyphs as unicode text in the clipboard. Try pasting in a text editor.

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BTW I just updated the script. It now works much better, especially if you want to create many classes.

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smooth one, thanks mekkablue