font.compileGlyph is missing

[gferreira]

this was quite useful for building accented glyphs using anchors… can we add it?

# old RoboFab code, doesn't work in fontParts

f = CurrentFont()

accentsDict = {
    'Aacute' : ['A', [('acute', 'top')]],
    'ccedilla : ['c', [('cedilla 'bottom')]],
}

for accentedGlyph, (baseGlyph, accents) in accentsDict.items():
    f.compileGlyph(accentedGlyph, baseGlyph, accents)

[typemytype]

+1

[typesupply]

This always seemed very limited to me. Maybe if the construction format was more robust it could come back. @typemytype didn't you do some work on a better system?

[typemytype]

@typesupply see https://github.com/typemytype/GlyphConstruction

[gferreira]

GlyphConstruction is great, I’ve used it in recent projects.

Still, having f.compileGlyph would be nice for compatibility with older scripts.

[benkiel]

@typemytype should we put GlyphConstruction into FontParts? Possible to map compileGlyph to it, then also let folks use it's more expansive features?

[typemytype]

That is what will happens inside the next version of RF...

For that reason GlyphConstruction is now a package that can be installed

[benkiel]

compileGlyph was too limited, it is deprecated and removed. Will throw a error. Things should use GlyphConstruction or their own method for doing something like this.