[why]
We 'manually' patch the font file after `fontforge` created it. This can
go wrong, for example we fail to create a correct new checksum.
Or we fail to patch the correct font property.
[how]
Also build `showttf` from the `fontforge` package and use it to extract
some font properties:
* Check the example patched font file checksum
* Compare the `lowestRecPPEM` of source to patched font file
[note]
`fontforge` set `lowestRecPPEM` always to 8 in generated fonts.
Hack has a value of 6.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
It might be easier to use the precompiled application than to build it
ourselves.
[how]
The AppImage has the typical problem with relative paths, so we need to
change some small calls.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The purged (obsolete) files are still existing after release.
[how]
We restore the deleted files before it adds the new ones.
Just delete all font files and then download all the release files (all
newly created fonts).
`git add` on a directory will remove all missing files.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Fontforge 2020 March or 20th Anniversary have problems to generate fonts
with a lot of table entries. This is for example the massive entries for
ligatures in Iosevka. We can not generate valid font files with that
fontforge versions. We can not even detect (from Python side) if
fontforge had problems.
[how]
We fixed fontforge itself upstream with
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/4883
That fix became available first with Fontforge March 2022 Release.
We could use the AppImage or build from scratch, because no package is
available on Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The font matix contains the directory names of the font files. The
directory names are taken from
bin/scripts/lib/fonts.json
and specifically extracted with
bin/scripts/get-font-names-from-json.sho
That script returns the .folderNames
Later in the release script we use the folder name to limit the fonts
that patch-em-all shall process. Unfortunately patch-em-all could (until
the previous commit) just work with font-filenames and not with
directory names. But the matrix gives us just directory names.
This is for example a problem with this fonts:
$ ll src/unpatched-fonts/BigBlueTerminal
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fini fini 25632 Jan 1 14:03 BigBlue_Terminal_437TT.TTF
-rw-rw-r-- 1 fini fini 69964 Jan 1 14:03 BigBlue_TerminalPlus.TTF
The *directory* of that fonts is correctly noted in fonts.json as
"BigBlueTerminal" but the font files do not begin with that!
[how]
Now, that patch-em-all can also filter on the directory name, we just
need to utilized that in the workflow run. If the filter shall work on
directory names the first character needs to be a slash, so we just
prepend it to name we got from the matix.
Fixes: #824
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
