Re: [Fontforge-devel] Kerning copying

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 19:30, Andrey V. Panov wrote:
> I have a feature request: copying of the information about all kerning pairs 
> from one glyph to another. This would be useful after, for example, building 
> of accented character.
Ok.

There's a new menu command Edit->Copy Glyph Features.
There's a new scripting command CopyGlyphFeatures

The menu brings up a dlg showing all features associated with the
current glyph and allows you to pick which ones you want to copy. The
dialog distinguishes between kerning pairs where the current glyph is
the initial glyph and those where the current glyph is the final glyph.
(suppose "o" is selected. Then you can request kerning pairs "o*"
separate from "*o" (you may also select both)).

This does not copy information stored in kerning classes,
contextual/chaining, or apple state machines.

The script command takes as argument either:
  a string
	which must be a 4 character opentype tag, or a mac
	 feature/setting as <1,1>
  a number
	Which must be either a 4 character opentype tag as
	 a number ('kern' => 'k'<<24 | 'e'<<16 | 'r' << 8 | 'n')
	 or a feat/set as a number (feat<<16 | set)
  an array
	Of strings/numbers in one of the above formats
	 (in which case we select features which match any
	  of the tags)
The tag 'kern' matches all kerning pairs where the current glyph is the
initial glyph. The (fake) tag '_krn' matches all kerning pairs where the
current glyph is the final one.
(Similarly 'vkrn' and '_vkn')