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

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

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 06:15:15PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 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

Seeing Max Rabkin's answer makes me wounder why I'm calculating the old
side bearing myself, stupid :p

Regards,
 Khaled