Re: [Fontforge-devel] FontForge Python - Center in Width

[Khaled H. <kha...@eg...>]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 01:49:56PM -0200, Dimitre Lima wrote:
> It would be amazing to be able to use "Metrics -> Center in Width" feature in
> FontForge Python.

I think it shouldn't be hard to do the needed calculation in Python,
something like:

glyph = fontforge.activeFont()['a']
xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax = glyph.boundingBox()
bwidth = xmax-xmin
glyph.left_side_bearing = glyph.right_side_bearing = (glyph.width-bwidth)/2

Regards,
 Khaled