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Does anyone ever use MetaFont/MetaPost to create fonts (typefaces)? Does FontForge have any scripting capability? I’ve never used it … only read about it. But I

• svat 3y ago
  Almost no one, but see e.g. this one: https://thottingal.in/blog/2022/10/05/nupuram/ https://thottingal.in/blog/2022/10/05/nupuram/ https://twitter.com/santhoshtr/status/1577596445917470722 https://twitter.com/santhoshtr/status/1577596445917470722 https://smc.org.in/fonts/nupuram https://smc.org.in/fonts/nupuram https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday2023.pdf https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday202...
• spaceman_atlas 3y ago
  FontForge embeds a Python interpreter [0], which lets you write Python scripts that start with `#!/usr/bin/fontforge` and just `chmod +x` and plainly execute them later on. That said I've only ever personally used it for basic reproducible manipulation of existing fonts with small issues with individual glyphs I wanted to fix, so your mileage may vary depending on requirements. [0]: https://fontforge.org/docs/scripting/python.html https://fontforge.org/docs/scripting/python.html