[why]
When changes are made to the font-patcher and fonts are patched with
that version we can not see which patcher has been used in the fonts
afterwards.
Would be good to have the usual version-patchversion number in the fonts
in these cases (i.e. `v2.3.3-7` for 7 commits after `2.3.3`).
I did this manually before, but it is always a hassle.
[how]
If the font-patcher is run directly from a git repo and git is installed
we try to get the latest tag version including patch number.
If and only if that is successful and that version is 'newer' than the
version encoded in the font-patcher script the git version is trusted
more.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Some fonts have invalid (or unset) Panose flags. When we create a "Nerd
Font Mono" font the Panose proportion is set to 'monospace'. This
make the font selectable in certain applications that need monospaced
fonts.
After #764 the "Nerd Font" variant shall (again) be detected as
monospaced font, but the glyphs have a big right side bearing (hang into
the next 'cell'). So we need to set the Panose bits there also.
[how]
We already have a check if the font is propably monospaced, independent
from Panose. This is used to prevent --mono patching on originally
proportional fonts.
If we find out with that check that the font is (most probably)
monospaced we also set the appropriate bits in Panose; unless Panose has
valid values that contradict that change.
Fixes: #1098
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When --quiet and --no-progressbar is given we get a lot of empty lines
in the output.
[how]
Just output the carriage return when we have output som eunterminated
stuff before.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When a certain 'higher codepoint' glyph is needed for a substitution or
ligature rule of a basic glyph and we replace the 'higher codepoint'
glyph with a symbol that stylistic set or ligature will be broken.
[how]
We can not determine if a certain glyph is the _target_ of a pos-sub
rule (at least I could not find a way). What we do is remove all pos-sub
entries that _start_ at a symbol-patched glyph [1], but that is not the
same.
Instead of walking through all substitution tables we just examine the
'basic glyphs' and also protect all glyphs that they reference through
most of the possub tables.
In fact I encountered only "Substitution" entries and never "Ligature"
entries, but we handle both alike. "Pair", "AltSub", and "MultSub" are
not handled, but could be added if need be.
[1] #711Fixes: #901
Reported-by: Xiangyu Zhu <frefreak.zxy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
List comprehension helps with readability. Also add comments that
describe expected data structures of altuni and references. Also bump up
the patcher version number.
[how]
Use list comprehension. Add comments. Change the version number.
[why]
Using `continue` feels inelegant when there's a way to write the if
conditions in add_glyphrefs_to_essential() without necessitating the use
of `continue` while ensuring that the function still works as intended.
[how]
Change the `if` conditions and remove any usage of the `continue`
keyword in add_glyphrefs_to_essential().
[why]
Issue #400 recently reoccurred with the latest build of Input font, and
it turns out the dotless-j part of the small `j` now points to U+0237,
which in turn has an alternate unicode encoding to U+F6BE; overwriting
U+F6BE effectively overwrites U+0237, and in turn, alters the small `j`.
This patch aims to fix that.
[how]
In addition to references, the patcher also checks for alternate unicode
encodings which are returned by the glyph.altuni attribute, adds those
to the essential set of glyphs, and in turn recursively searches for
their references/alternate unicode encodings, making sure to handle
circular references (for example: U+2010 and U+2011 in Input Mono)
[why]
When HHEA and (depending on USE-TYPO-METRIC) TYPO or WIN are not
consistent it is unclear which metric we should trust.
In #1056 the complete font bounding box (i.e. yMin and yMax) has been
compared to the baseline to baseline distances, and in all these cases
the WIN values seem to be best (preserve the glyph bounding box).
font-line report fontname.ttf | grep metrics:
ttfdump -t head fontname.ttf | grep "yM(in|ax)"
[note]
Roboto will still be clipped?! There seem to be ridiculously high glyphs
in there. Did not check which.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The initial font-patcher used the WIN font metrics to determine the cell
height. What has been found was forced into HHEA metrics but without
observing the USE_TYPO_METRICS flag.
That has been changed to use the TYPO metric instead of the WIN metric
when the font wants that. For that the gap value becomes important.
This is the current code. It still has problems to detect the correct
cell height. A more rigorous approach seem to be needed.
[how]
The baseline to baseline distance is what we need as 'cell height', to
fill it completely with the powerline glyphs. This is a little bit
complicated and not really specified, each font rendering application or
engine can handle the font metrics differently. But there are some
common approaches.
So we try to come up with the correct and congruent height, comparing
different metrics and issuing a warning on problematic fonts.
Afterwards we make all metrics equal (even if they were not before),
because our goal is clear now and we impose it onto all platforms.
[note]
Useful resources:
* https://glyphsapp.com/learn/vertical-metrics
* https://github.com/source-foundry/font-lineFixes: #1056
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The -l option tries to improve (especially) the powerline glyphs by
making the baseline to baseline height (cell height) an even number.
But it does so only for 2 of the three possible metrics.
[how]
Assuming the hight is identical for all metrics we just need to add '1'
to all ascender values.
[note]
I'm not sure this does anything. After rounding an odd height might
create a 'sharper' triangle tip, not an even height?
Do not understand the real reason for the -l option.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Although Monofur is monospaced it has one glyph (hyphen) that is
slightly wider than all others. This results in a Monospaced font that
is slightly too wide.
[how]
Ignore the hyphen width.
[note]
Additionally improve (commented out) debug code (shows now hex
codepoint).
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
If a `Nerd Font Mono` font is to be created we need to make sure the
original font is indeed monospaced. If it is not and we enforce the same
adavnce width on all glyphs they will look very ugly. Fonts need to be
designed to be monospaced.
We spot check only some characteristic glyphs for that.
Hermit Bold has a problem. Although it looks more or less monospaced it
has some glyphs wider than all the others, for example the small letter
`m`.
Creating a `Nerd Font Mono` (a font where all glyphs have the same
width) will either: Add too much space to the right of all the other
(smaller) glyphs, or will have the wider glyphs cut off on the right.
[how]
Add small letter 'm' to the spot check list. Now the patcher will by
default refuse to --mono patch that font.
Also add output of first char that fails the monospace check. This makes
debugging easier.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
If a font is problematic to patch as monospaced font, that is detected
but the reporting is maybe not strong enough and gets overlooked.
[how]
Pull font property reporting into dedicated functions.
Use that function additionally in other warning.
[note]
The monospace check uses all glyphs to determine the advance width, but
the actual advance width later ignores some glyphs (that are problematic
in some fonts and are thus ignored, although that glyphs will 'break'
after patching).
This might or might not be useful, I just leave it as it was before.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
With commit
99c260831 font-patcher: Fix more 'Nerd Font Mono' too wide
the glyphs 'ij' and 'IJ' are exempted from the advance width
calculation, because some fonts (i.e. Overpass Mono) defines them as two
cell wide glyphs (Hello? 'Mono'?)
For some obscure reason it was 'IJ' and 'J circumflex' that were
exempt, not 'ij'.
[how]
Exempt correct code.
Fixes: #703
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
With commit
f240e073f font-patcher: Fix windows Mono family names with --makegroups
the script version did not change, which makes it impossible to say if a
user uses a bugfixed patcher or not.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Without --makegroups the font family is "Name NFM", but with it enabled
we get "Name NF Mono".
[how]
Mimic the old short-naming also for the groups.
This feels a bit strange, why do we need to specify the names three
times for `inject_suffix()`, slightly different. At some point this
should probably be unified.
def inject_suffix(self, fullname, fontname, family):
"""Add a custom additonal string that shows up in the resulting names"""
In principle Family + Subfamily -> Fullname -> Fontname
Somehow we rename not according to the default rules.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Scaling the glyphs individually breaks a lot of glyph pairs or groups,
for example F0718-F071E.
[how]
Use one ScaleGlyph for the complete set. The set itself is already very
well scaled, i.e. all glyphs are maximized in a given design space and
that they look good next to pairing glyphs.
There is no need to use ScaleRules which is quite costly for such a big
range of glyphs (they all are copied twice in the process).
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
ScaleGlyph always did scaling only (no translation) based on one
reference glyph.
ScaleGroups does scaling and translation but can not work with one
reference glyph but constructs always a combined bounding box.
Missing is a way to scale AND translate, but with only one reference
glyph.
[how]
Invent GlyphsToScale+ keyword, that supports just that.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The files sizes of otf files are (especially with the addition of the
current Material Design Icons) big enough already. The autohints are not
really useful for symbols, so we can drop them and save some space.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Material Design Icons has grown quite a bit.
[how]
Add the icons at their original position which is in PUA1.
Use the desktop font instead of the webfont.
Add cheat cheat file.
Fixes: #365
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
We want to differentiate between the old, problematic Material Design
Icons (problematic because we map them to unicode blocks that we should
not), and a future new and updated set of Material Design Icons.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Sometimes we set an empty string as SubFamily name. That ends up as
'Book' which is unexpected.
[how]
The translation from empty to "Book" is done by Fontforge, at least
with version 20220308.
Make sure we always have a SubFamily, and if we don't that must be a
'Regular'.
[note]
This was only a problem with the old naming engine. --makegroups got
this right always.
Fixes: #1046
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The vertical overlap is still not 'pixel perfect', it is off by a small
amount that differs by font.
[how]
The reason is the wrong formula. We take the relative widths of the
glyph to calculate the factor needed to add an overlap in height.
Of course we need to take the relative heights *duh*.
Sometimes I think how dumb can a single person be? :-}
I would say this is copy-and-paste laziness.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The change introduced with commit
Default some Powerline glyphs to '2 cells wide'
scales some Powerline glyphs to fit exactly into a 2 cell width. That
looks good on 'normal' fonts, but when the font becomes wider and less
tall at some point that is just too wide.
This is especially the case with the SymbolsOnly font which has a 1:1
aspect ratio. Two cell Powerline glyphs would have an aspect ratio of
2:1 which is unusable.
[how]
Check the destination font cell aspect ratio.
When a two-cell glyph would be wider than 1.6 times its height the
two-cell-mode is forbitten and all Powerline glyphs are scaled into one
cell width.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The hexagons touch the left edge with a full body, so most likely people
do not want to have any visible gap there.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The vertical overlap has never been a problem (as far as I know). It is
maybe good to have some overlap for the terminal emulators that support
vertical overlap.
On terminals that truncate at the nominal cell border too much overlap
looks bad, i.e. the glyphs 'distorted'.
If we ever increase the overlap it is most likely be meant to be the
left-right overlap.
Note that the glyphs are usually valign='c' and the overlap is
distributed half top and half bottom. There are no other valign values
implemented (just 'not align' which is ... most likely bad).
[note]
Originally this has been part of commit fecda6a of #780.
[note2]
Originally this has been part of PR #967.
Although that had a bug 😬
It used max() instead of min() (T_T)
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
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[why]
We have two variables that hold the same data (sym_dim and dim), which
is confusing ('why do we have it?').
There is also the big 'if' on 'do we want to scale', which contains too
much. In the unlikely event that we have a glyph that needs to be scaled
by 1.0 AND have an overlap the code produces the wrong results.
[how]
Shuffle lines but no functional change (except that now we obey
'overlap' always (not that it has been a problem)).
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When we scale all Powerline glyphs also horizontally (in X direction) to
'one cell' some might look a bit too small; especially because they were
very big previoulsy (before commit 'font-patcher: Do x-scale powerline
glyphs').
[how]
To get them to a reasonable and always equal width a new scale code is
introduced: '2'. It is evaluated in 'x' or 'y' scaling contexts and
doubles the target cell width (unless a "Nerd Font Mono" is generated
where all glyphs must be one cell wide).
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Most Powerline glyphs have a little bit over overlap to the previous or
next glyph to prevent a 'break' in a colored prompt.
It does not make sense to have overlap with glyphs that can never
produce any of that issues, i.e. glyphs that are not filled to the
border. Like all the line-ish glyphs.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
For the non-Mono variants ('Nerd Font' and 'Nerd Font Propo') the
Powerline symbols are scaled in Y but the width is just kept from the
symbol font, whatever that might be (and if it makes any sense).
If you have for example the triangular thing (`E0B0`) it is bigger than
'one cell' and extrudes into the following cell (on 'Nerd Font'). For
the other side (`E0B2`) it is even worse; it is right aligned in the
current cell and so (because it is wider than one cell) it protrudes
into the previous cell.
[how]
Just allow not only Y scaling but also X scaling for non-Mono fonts.
[note]
This is of relevance just for 'xy' scaling, and only the Powerline
symbols do that.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The overlap formula seems to be off sometimes. Although the shift is
correct (and thus the number of 'pixels' that overlap), but the non
overlapping part of the glyph is often not as wide as expected, off by
up to some percent.
[how]
The formula is too simple. It just calculates an additional scale factor
on top of the already existing factor. To get it 'pixel perfect' we need
to calculate first how much the glyph fills the cell - because we want
the overlap to be in 'cell percent' and not 'glyph percent'. That might
be sometimes the same (if the cell is filled completely), but usually it
is not completely full, and that means the overlap will be smaller than
intended.
[note]
To get the current glyph bounding box we pull some lines up in the code
that get the 'dim' variable.
Also use float constants to calculate with float variables.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
While the left-side-waveform gets 'xy' scaled the right-side gets 'pa'
scaled. This has been obviously forgotten.
[how]
Add specific scale rule for right-side-waveform.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
On very small source fonts the patched-in symbol-glyphs can become very
big and create overlay problems. It might be desirable to scale them
down to 'two advance widths'.
[how]
It could be that the glyphs in question are in a ScaleGlyph range. So we
need to activate that code also for non-single fonts.
Further we allow two slots wide symbols in get_scale_factors() for those
fonts.
Now we take the computed scale factors for non-single fonts - only if we
scale down and not up. It will confuse/upset people if the known symbols
in their fonts suddenly become bigger - and it also does not look right.
Fixes: #718Fixes: #747
Reported-by: Rui Ming (Max) Xiong <xsrvmy>
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The glyph rescaling is scattered about two functions and several
branches. It becomes hard to follow what is done when and why.
[how]
Use one function that determines any glyph scaling, that includes all
handling except ScaleGlyph related stuff.
This simplifies the code in copy_glyphs() a lot, and keeps all the scaling
in get_scale_factors().
[note]
No behavioral change introduced with this.
[note]
Well, it fixes the possible problem (it will never happen, but lurks)
that a glyph is in the ScaleGlyph range AND has Y scaling set.
The old code first uses the ScaleGlyph scaling and afterwards violates
it by mindlessly doing the Y stretch. This would not happen anymore with
the new code. If a ScaleGlyph is specified for a certain glyph, that
ScaleGlyph is followed and nothing else.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The 'monospace' width is determined by examining all the 'normal' glyphs
and taking the widest one.
'Normal' means 0x00-0x17f: the Latin Extended-A range.
Unfortunately some fonts that claim to be monospaced still have some
glyphs that are wider than the others.
[how]
Exclude a small group of glyphs from the 'find the widest glyph'.
The list is specifically targetted at the fonts we patch, see PR #1045.
Most of these glyphs are either visually small and it is unclear why
they are too wide (like double-quotes), or they are from the real
extended set, notably all the Eth (D with a slash) and other added-slash
or added-caron glyphs.
In ignoring them we might 'break' these specific glyphs for the people
who use them (like: they extend out of the cell into the next), but that
is the only way to keep the 'monospaced promise' without redesigning the
actual font.
But without these exceptions we have Nerd Font Mono fonts that increase
the cell width so that 'normal text' is rendered almost unreadable.
So this is an improvement for most users; and I see no way so solve
these font issues for all users (without redesigning the font itself ;).
Also add a 'warning' if a (still) problematic font is to be patched.
As reminder for self-patcher or when we add fonts here.
[note]
Related commit
fbe07b8ab Fix Noto too wide
2945cecd1 Fix Overpass Mono too wide
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The 'monospace' width is determined by examining all the 'normal' glyphs
and taking the widest one.
'Normal' means 0x00-0x17f: the Latin Extended-A range.
Unfortunately Overpass (Mono) has wide-as-two-letters IJ and ij ligatures.
[how]
Exclude a small sub-range from the 'find the widest glyph' that contain
these ligatures. Yes they will kind of break, but what can we do if we
want to create a strictly monospaced font?
[note]
Related commit
fbe07b8ab Fix Noto too wide
Related: #1043
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Forgot to increase the script version with previous commit.
But especially after a bugfix we need a new version to identify
if people use the version before or after
the fix (e.g. docker image).
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
In some cases only some ScaleRule glyphs are used.
[how]
Store mixture of integers and ranges for ScaleGlyph (as is done for
ScaleGroups).
Correctly evaluate mixture of integers and ranges.
[note]
Came up with PR #773
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
fontforge is not really able to work with OpenType variable fonts, at
least not with all. Some support is available as MM, for older formats.
But anyhow we do not really create a patched variable font but a fixed
font.
People might ignore all the errors Fontforge throws on opening, so an
explicit message might be in order.
[how]
It is not possible to detect a VF input font with current fontforge
reliably. Instead we search for the existence of one of the tables that
are needed for a variable font. We can not rely on STAT, because that
might be also used in fixed fonts.
Some fontforges might crash on VFs, so we give a warning before we even
open the font and one after the patched font has been created.
Fixes: #512
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
