Flux: Font Layout UX

Flux will be a font layout editor. Currently this is in a rapid prototyping ("spike") phase; there are many moving parts and lots will change.

Flux relies heavily on my fontFeatures module for representation of layout rules. Consequently, that module is also rapidly changing to respond to the needs of this project. All of the edges are bleeding.

Currently Flux only reads fonts in .glyphs format.

If you want to play:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 flux.py

Building an app on OS X

• Ensure that fontFeatures is installed unpacked (i.e. not as an egg)
• Ensure that lxml.etree is built from source and installed
• Clone py2app and hack it as per ronaldoussoren/py2app#271 (comment)
• python3 setup.py py2app
• rm -rf dist/flux.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/PyQt5/Qt/lib/Qt{WebEngine,Designer,Quick}*