Re: Gets vertical skylines from grob stencils (issue 5626052)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:00 AM, address@hidden
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> This sounds wrong.  Where does this data come from ultimately?
>>>
>>
>> The svg files.  I read them into lilypond and generate this informatin.
>
> You mean the SVG fonts?  The SVG files are generated by FF in the same
> step as the OTF files.  I suspect that whatever you need is easier to
> generate in FF directly.
>
> You could ask around on the fontforge mailing list.

Also, nowadays, fontforge supports Python scripting. We could redo all
the craziness involving generated files and legacy .pe scripts in
plain Python.

It would be a nice and meaty project for someone to get their hands
dirty (gsoc, frogs?)

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