I’ve just written a plugin which I find useful, (because I’m awful at type design) but I don’t know if anyone else would. It puts little icons onto your editor view to show you when your glyphs are symmetrical and when they aren’t.
This /I has rotational and reflectional symmetry in X and Y axes:
This /H only has horizontal symmetry:
This /O looks like it should be symmetrical, but no icons are showing up. Time to check the points!
This probably has only very limited use, but if it does turn out to be useful to anyone else, I’ll tidy it up and release it. Anyone want it?
This looks very interesting. I would show the icons above the current letter otherwise a preceding letter would cover it. And it might react to selection.
Nice idea to react to selection. Now if nothing is selected, it reports on the symmetry of the whole glyph, but if some points are selected, it reports on the symmetry of those points. I think that makes it much more useful.
The legs of this K have different angles, but they start at the same point:
I used a slightly different approach. Because (1) most (if not all) publicly available scripts are on Github and (2) there’s no overhead to having lots of scripts installed, my Scripts folder is a git repository with no files of its own but with everyone else’s repositories as submodules. This gives me an easy way to update all scripts.
If you clone or download https://github.com/simoncozens/Glyphs-Script-Repository into Library/Application Support/Glyphs/Scripts, then you get everyone’s scripts (that I’ve been able to find so far), and you can upgrade them all with git submodule update.
Nice, thanks! @GeorgSeifert & @SimonC I updated my GitHub to have a single repository for each plugin now. This matches the structure of everyone else. I’d appreciate if you could update the links in your Wiki. Also There are some new plugins already, and more during the next days. I pm you for the links.
