[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>
f
[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>
[why]
Running gotta-patch-em-all creates a lot of output that is most likely
not wanted.
[how]
Add --verbose option to gotta-patch-em-all.
Hide debugging information unless it is wanted by specifying this option.
Also change font-patcher to produce less verbose output and respect
--quite in more places.
This includes a change that we try to tweak the font flags only if
source and destination font are ttf or otf, because we can not read the
other raw font files anyhow.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
All the fonts will have different timestamps, and within each font the
creation and modification date might also differ. That is quite
confusing and makes automated testing very complicated.
[how]
Use one date-time for ALL fonts and for creation and modification date
in the font file.
But do not change the date-time if we already set that somewhere before :-}
Also remove the 'special' properitary fontforge timestamp tables FFTM from
the patched fonts. This is only possible since FontForge 20th Anniversary
Edition.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The powerline glyphs (and only them) undergo a xy scaling, where both
dimensions are maximized into the 'cell'.
Normally cells are taller than wide, and everyting looks fine. But we
have square cells (e.g. 2048 * 2048) with the SymbolsOnly font, and
there might be some self patched font that has similar very-wide (in
comparison to hight) cells.
In these fonts some powerline glyphs look rather ugly. For example the
'half cicles' become very wide and un-round, the triangulars become very
pointy.
[how]
Add a new patch-set attribute 'xy-ratio'. When that is set the vertical
(y) scaling is done as usual but the horizontal (x) scaling is limited
such that the width/height ratio is maximally the attributes value.
For example setting it to 0.75 the height is maximized (as usual) but
the width is maximized to be less then 0.75 times the hight (or as wide
as the cell is, whatever is smaller).
It will work with both, 'xy' and 'pa' scaling, at least theoretically.
It has been only checked where it is used now, i.e. with 'xy'.
A possible overlap is not taken into account.
[note]
The values are taken for this reasons:
- 0.59: This is the original half-circle ratio, higher values make them
loose the (half) circular appearance
- 0.5: The half circle lines are more shallow
- 0.7: The triangulars should not be too pointy (random number)
Fixes: #658
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The old doc was a bit unclear and I always had to read the code when
changes / additions to ScaleRules were needed.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
If a ScaleGlyph is defined that ScaleRules will just be that one rule,
even if in parallel the user specified some ScaleGroups.
So it is either ScaleGroups or ScaleGlyph but not both.
If someone specifies both there is no warning or check.
[how]
Just allow both. Rewrite the ScaleGlyph to an additional (last) entry in
the ScaleGroups.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Assume a set of monospaced icons in a ScaleGroup that scatter all about
(like Braille).
With --variable-width-glyphs we forcefully remove all left side
bearings and set the width to the width of the combined bounding box.
This is not correct, usually with monospaced ScaleGroup icons we should
preserve the original advance width.
[how]
Do not remove left side bearings on ScaleGroup glyphs in
--variable-width-glyphs mode.
Set the width of any glyph in --variable-width-glyphs to the 'monoscaped
advance width' if that particular glyph has one (from a ScaleGroup).
The effect is that all positive bearings will be 'added' and put on the
right hand side of the glyph, while the glyph itself, or rather the
combined bounding box, is still strictly left aligned.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
We have still a confusing naming. There are two different things that
are called 'ScaleGlyph':
- The setting in the patch set
- The reference glyph for old style scaling
[how]
Rename the patch set member to ScaleRules, as this is what in contained.
Also rename variable names accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
We now have the 'old' and the 'new' GlyphsToScale things, which behave
differently, but they have the same name. That can lead to confusion. At
least I am always confused when I look at the code after a month or so.
[how]
Call the 'new' method 'ScaleGroup' instead.
The 'new' feature (which includes creating a combined bounding box and
synchronized shifting) 'ScaleGroup'.
The 'old' feature (which scales all glyphs as if they would have the
size of one reference glyph; shifting is individual) still consists of
'ScaleGlyph' and 'GlyphsToScale'.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The code looks so compliacted while in fact it is not (so much).
Rounding sometimes and sometimes not is hard to reaon about. The
un-rounded values should in principle be better, but there is some
rounding hidden in the font that we can not really simulate, so simulate
what we can.
[how]
Always scale (even if factor is one) and round to integer the BB.
[note]
Also use 'is not None' ideom.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The advance width in the bounding box data is sometimes wrong (usually
to small). Turned out only AFTER the glyph scaling.
[how]
The wrong scaling factor has been used *duh*.
Advance width is of course X axis.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When only one symbol glyph is examined we conclude that it comes from a
monospaced glyph set.
This might be correct or not, but when we can not positively say it is
monospaced we should not handle it as monospaced.
[how]
We require at least TWO glyphs with the same width (and no glyph
with a different width) until we set the 'advance' bounding box
property. Which says that this particular glyph subset is monospaced.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The scale-glyph-data is used only for 'pa' scales, but thereafter used
for all shifts, even if the scaling has been 'x' or 'y' or both.
As we do not use GlyphToScale for anything but 'pa' scaled glyphs that
should not make any difference right now. But it will be an obscure bug
if we ever want to handle the Powerline symbols with a scale group.
I do not know if that will ever happen, but I tried it whilst
experimenting spending hours on finding this bug.
[how]
Access the GlyphToScale data and use it even for 'x' and 'y' scaling, if
we have it for the particular glyph.
[note]
Also change 'invalid' flag from False to None.
Also use 'is None' or 'is not None' for comparisons with None.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The previous commit is somewhat incomplete in some cases and plain wrong
in others (with proportional fonts). Examples:
The Heard 0x2665 gets a positive right side bearing, which is
unexpected. The commits prevents negative right side bearings but not
positive ones.
The glyphs with overlap (which are the Powerline ones) like 0xE0B0 and
0xE0B2 end up in wrong sizes.
This can especially be seen with the Symbols-Only (non-Mono) font,
because that is (secretly) a 'Nerd Font Propo' (--variable-width-glyphs)
font.
[how]
This is kind of a design choice: As with the other patched font variants
we ignore existing borders (positive bearings) around the glyph. The
previous commit tried to keep them, which seems to be impossible and
is inconsistent). Also negative bearings would be ignored (but there are
none).
The only place where bearings come into play is now when we have
overlap. All non-overlap glyphs render without any bearing.
If we have overlap we need to
a) reduce the width by the overlap
b) introduce a negative bearing on the appropriate side
First we remove any left side bearing by transforming the glyph to the
side, such that the bearing becomes zero.
For left-side overlap we additionally transform the glyph by the overlap
amount to the left (as usual). This creates the neg. left bearing.
For right-side overlap we keep the left bearing to be zero.
After correcting the left-side bearing (by transforming) we set the
corrected width. That is the width subtracted by the overlap.
In the left-aligned case this makes the right-side bearing zero.
In the right-aligned case this results in a negative right-side bearing.
Note how fontforge handles size and bearing changes:
Fontforge handles the width change like this:
- Keep existing left_side_bearing
- Set width
- Calculate and set new right_side_bearing
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Very slender symbols added to a proportional patch end up being at least
one mono-width wide, which mixes proportional and monospaces metrics.
[how]
When we create a proportional font we should
a) not try to align them in a (non existing) monocpace cell
b) insert the symbols with their own (advance) width
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When creating a non-Mono font the vertical alignment does not observe a
possible ScaleGlyph group. Icons that should be far up (like the
degree-icon, which is ScaleGlyph-grouped together with a full height
symbol) end up centered vertically.
[how]
When the glyph is not scaled we just do not use the ScaleGlyph.
But that data is also needed for just shifting the glyph.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The weather icons have a glyph for degress, a small cirle for up.
That gets completely destroyed on scaling to fit.
[how]
Just add a scaleGlyph set.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The weather icons have some symbols that have a different bounding box
but should nevertheless be scaled alike, because for example one is the
outer line of a thermometer and one is the matching stem.
[how]
Just add a scaleGlyph set.
Fixes: #915
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
This is obviously a complete mess.
Firstly it seems the author (me) used the array elements as ranges,
which is of course not possible. And them the end has a typo.
Sigh.
[how]
Not consecutive codes must all be given one by one (unfortunately).
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Man do I hate these indented tables in code. Specifically because they
break conciseness of commits if one needs to re-indent unrelated
entries.
[how]
Do it in this separate commit that does not change functionality.
[note]
Smuggled in unrelated code shift by some lines.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
If we define glyph groups in ScaleGlyph we want them to be scaled alike,
but they are aligned individually, which makes previously matching pairs
looking odd.
[how]
If we have a combined bounding box stored in a ScaleGlyph range, that
box is used to align all symbols in the range identically.
If the symbol font is proportinal only the v alignment is synced.
If the symbol font is monospaced v and h alignemnts are synced.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
We might want to handle monospaced symbol fonts differently then
proportional symbol fonts. Proportional symbol fonts usually have
no uniform symbol scaling, while monospaced symbol fonts usually have a
well designed placement of the symbols within the cell.
[how]
Add new member to the dimensions dict.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
If we use a ScaleGlyph range (i.e. use the same scaling on a range of
glyphs; the scaling is determined by the combined bounding box of all
that glyphs), we probably want to shift the glyphs identically as well
to preserve relative positions not only sizes of the glyphs within the
range.
But the data is stored nowhere.
[how]
Store the 'virtual' bounding box along with the scale.
[note]
With combined (virtual) bounding box we mean the bounding box that a
glyph would have where all the individual glyphs would be stamped over
each other without shifting/scaling beforehand.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When the combinded bounding box of a range of glyphs is to be determined
and the range contains an empty glyph the resulting bounding box will
always include the [0, 0] point (that is the point-ish bounding box of
the empty glyph).
[how]
If more than one codepoint is to be considered empty glyphs are ignored.
But if only one (concrete) codepoint is queried do return the empty
(i.e. [0, 0, 0, 0]) bounding box.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
First the new ScaleGlyph has been introduced with commit
e5768e925 font-patcher: Redesign ScaleGlyph parameter
and afterwards it has been enhanced to avoid rounding errors
with commit
983226a70 font-patcher: Fix scaleGlyph related rounding error
The later commit uses a function that explicitely says it will destroy
the glyph at a specific location, AFTER we already patched in one glyph
(namely F000).
It does not look too bad, bad that glyph is not correctly rescaled or
translated. Only that glyph is affected because only Font Awesome uses
the new ScaleGlyph capabilities, and only the first glyph of a set is
affected.
[how]
The ScaleGlyph calculations need to be done before the final glyph is
patched in. It is shifted some lines up. Usually that glyph is not
existing in the to-be-patched font, so we create a dummy first.
Also need to correct distinction between 'unicode in symbol font' and
'unicode in to-be-patched font', as this would bite us in cases where we
move the symbol's codepoint.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The filename is determined by the font (family) name. The font name
might include characters that are forbidden to use in filenames.
[how]
Filter output filesnames and prevent any character that is likely
forbidden under Windows.
Also prevent control characters.
Translate Windows path separators to posix.
Fixes: #632
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When a custom set is to be patched and that set contains the .notdef
glyph the script crashes.
[how]
The glyphs has an unicode codepoint of -1, a code that we explicitely
not patch. That leads to confusion when we try to determine the
codepoint to be used for that glyph, because it has none.
Exclude negative codepoint glyphs when we determine the selection of
to-be-patched glyphs.
As last resort for broken custom sets skip over glyphs that come out of
order (which should be impossible).
Fixes: #1005
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Keeping the ligature removal tables up to date with source font updates
is quite a maintenance burden.
Usually if a terminal supports ligatures at all it has an option to
disable them.
Present ligatures do not prevent monospaced fonts and monospaced
detection.
It was only present in v2.0.0, and the code has been broken with v2.1.0.
[note]
Updated example ligature removal table to the one for Iosevka.
Left stubs in relevant code passages to facilitate finding this commit.
Fixes: #976Fixes: #975Fixes: #973
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
If we ever switch the default branch the links would break. So just say
'default branch' directly, whichever that may be.
[note]
CI workflows not changed, I do not know if there is an alias for the
default branch available.
Fixes: #971 (partially)
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
If we have an empty input font (i.e. for Symbols Only font) and that
font has a gap.. That gap will be redistributed to a gapless font where
the ascenders and descenders are expanded to fill/keep the gap.
If the font has no height (i.e. == ) and a gap, the height will
afterwards be > 0 and the empty font detection breaks.
[how]
Detect empty fonts before gaps.
Fixes: #965
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Use of abs() looks like we do not know if the descenders are expected
to be positive or negative. But it is well defined.
Furthermore on abnormal fonts (where the descenders are nonexisting)
we can use the wrong value. Well, that is academic I guess.
[how]
In our own `ymin` value we store a value like os2_descender, which means
that it is on the same axis as the ascender (ymax). Typical values where
the baseline is on y-coordinate 0 ymax will be positive and ymin (being
below the baseline) will be negative.
The total height has to be calculated from adding ascender + -descender
(when the descenders are lower than the ascenders, which is guaranteed).
The older descender values have positive values; are on an opposite y
axis... The height with them would be ascender + descender.
Well, WE have in the font_dim os2-like values...
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
For some fonts the calculated checksum(s) was wrong.
[how]
Misplaced the multiplier ... the LSB shall not be shifted of course, but
the current code shifts as last action: Also the LSB is shifted.
First shift (old) accumulated content, then add new data.
In that way the last added data (LSB) is not shifted.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
We just ignore specified gaps in the source fonts (i.e. set them to
zero). This reduces the line spacing in the patched font (because the
gap is missing).
[how]
Distribute the gap INTO the cell, so that we can work with zero gap (we
need that for the powerline glyphs), and still keeping the powerline
glyphs centered about the regular glyphs AND keeping the total line
spacing.
Idea-by: Tushar Singh <tusharvickey1999@gmail.com>
Fixes: #850
Reported-by: Joe Bolts
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When the source font is proportional we can not really create a
monospaced (patched) font from it. The glyph width is for example very
small for 'i' but wide for 'W'.
The glyphs are all left aligned, leaving very strange separation between
smallish glyphs.
Even if we would center the glyphs, the look would be strange and
completely differenmt from the source font's look.
[how]
For proportional fonts do not allow to patch with `--mono`.
The fact if a source font is monospaced is determined by examining some
(very few) glyphs. But testing all our source fonts in the repo shows
that it is sufficient.
Furthermore the Panose flag is checked and differences between the flag
and what the glyph examination found are reported.
The user can enforce `Nerd Font Mono` generation with double specifying
the command line option `--mono --mono`. Still a warning will be issued.
[note]
Because `gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher!.sh` does not really count the
variations but calculates them in a separate loop it does not know
anymore how many variations are created per family. The numbers are
wrong.
But probably we should count the result font files in the end anyhow.
Because the information is not needed (in an automated manner) this is
not corrected here.
It seems wrong anyhow:
total_variation_count=$((total_variation_count+combination_count))
total_count=$((total_count+complete_variations_per_family+combination_count))
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The patch set table has 'contradicting' or 'complicated' entries.
[how]
When we use exact patching a SrcStart will be ignored and shall be None
to make that clear.
The other two cases patch in only one glyph, make the entries more easy
we could either make them 'exact' (reuse source codepoint) or specify a
SrcStart. At the moment they rely on the (hidden?) rule that non-exact
entries without SrcStart still reuse the SymStart...
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The Font Logos and Octicons codepoints depend on the parallel existence
of FontAwesome. I.e. Font Logos is shifted of Octicons or FontAwesome is
also present in the patched font; Octicons is shifted if FontAwesome is
present.
This means that people, although using a Nerd Font, can expect the
symbols in different locations. The reason is clear; people that just
want one or some symbols and use a specifically patched font will be
able to use the original symbol font codepoints.
But I guess that these uses are nonexisting. Almost all will use
'complete' patched fonts and that is what we deliver and document.
To make the documentation less complicated we should fix the code point
ranges that a specific symbol set will be patched in at.
[how]
Just drop the associated functions and use a False constant instead.
[note]
The two possible places where Octicons / Font Logos ends up are there
since they have been added back in 2015/6 (commits 9620d47ae, f933b5a2).
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
In patch set definitions we have for the source ranges SymStart and SymEnd
and for the destination we can specify SrcStart and SrcEnd
The SrcEnd can be automatically generated. For SrcEnd values that differ
from the autogenerated value (are lower) the script would crash, or (are
higher) ignore them anyhow.
There are two modes: 'exact = True' and 'exact = False'.
The SrcStart and SrcEnd values are ignored if exact is True, because the
glyphs are patched into the same codepoint where they originate. This
also means that gaps in the symbols are preserved - all patched in
glyphs have the same codepoint as they have in the source (symbol) font.
When exact is False on the other hand, all (non empty) glyphs are filled
into the codepoints that start at SrcStart. Gaps (empty glyphs) are
ignored and thus are not present as gap in the patched font anymore (*).
The to-be-filled-next codepoint in the patched font just increases by 1
on every filled symbol.
See note for the reason.
This also makes maintining the patch set easier as noone needs to
'calculate' a SrcEnd value anymore.
[how]
Use directly the start value and the counter instead of filling an array
with a range, that is then indexed by the counter.
Before this commit:
list_of_patched_font_codepoints = list(range(SrcStart, SrcEnd + 1))
current_codepoint = list_of_patched_font_codepoints[loop_counter]
After this commit:
current_codepoint = SrcStart + loop_counter
[note]
Maybe related to code removed with c728079b6.
I guess the code uses the list, because it has been believed that glyphs
can only be indexed by strings containing a hex number. The array
supposedly contained that strings.
But in fact the fontforge python module docu is like this:
font.__getitem__(key)
If key is an integer, then returns the glyph at that encoding.
If a string then returns the glyph with that name.
May not be assigned to.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The font flags and PPEM fix does not work with font collection files,
because it does not know how to handle them. It assumes a ttf or otf
font with the specified table structure.
The fix (for single font files) has been introduced with commit
40138bee9 font-patcher: Handle lowestRecPPEM
[how]
Check if the file is of type 'ttcf', and if so fast forward to the given
single font index into the collection.
This can be rather slow...
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
With the new TTC feature we might increase the minor number ;-)
This is not just a bugfix.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Someone might want to patch a whole lot of fonts that come in a ttc.
[how]
Just open all fonts that the input file contains (1 or more) and create
a single font or collection font file.
The automatic layer detection does not work in all cases for me, so we
need to manually search for the foreground layer (usually '1').
Code inspiration taken from
https://github.com/powerline/fontpatcher/pull/6
[note]
Changed output in the end to the filename (before it was the font name),
so that one can easily copy&paste or open that file.
Reported-by: Lily Ballard <lily@ballards.net>
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
These operations are also not strictly patching.
When we want to handle more than one font we need to have this outside
the patch() function.
[how]
Put opening and exporting (previously in __init__() and patch() into
main() outside the patcher object.
No functional change (except the sourceFont is now closed :->)
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The extension handling is a bit out-of-place and could be handled by the
arguments handling, which simplifies the code.
Somes goes for other argument validity checks.
[how]
Put argument checks into setup_arguments().
Dropping self.extensions in favour of self.args.extensions.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Parsing the command line arguments has nothing to do with the actual
patching.
If we want to patch more than one font we need to separate the partching
from unrelated work.
[how]
Just do the argument processing in main() and hand the information over
to the patcher object.
[note]
No functional change. Lines copied over (almost *) 1:1.
(*) Exceptions:
self.sym_font_args is now only a local variable, as it is only used in
this one function.
The startup message is shown on ... startup (i.e. main()).
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Only one tables is removed, even if we want to remove more.
With 0a480bb the indentation of the code has changed, and now the loop
is (apart from printing) empty. See also #934
[how]
Re-indent the lines to restore functionality as originally forseen with
commit 557fc00.
Reported-by: Rádler Ákos <akos.radler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Sometimes the patched-in symbols are slightly too big, which shows up in
Nerd Font Mono fonts where the destination size is specified exactly.
That issues a warning like:
Warning: Scaled glyph U+F077 wider than one monospace width
[how]
For the scaleGlyph groups we need to combine the bounding boxes of
several symbol glyphs to determine the 'combined' scale we need.
Unfortunately when the concrete glyph is finally copied over its size
can change minimally.
So we need to measure the glyphs in the scaleGroup _after_ they have
been copied to the to-be-patched font. This is a bit complicated,
because we need to know some glyph slot we can use for that.
[note]
See also commit
e805b879 font-patcher: Resolve rounding error when rescaling
Fixes: #917
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Windows Compatible fonts have the same Family name, regardless if they
are "Nerd Font" or "Nerd Font Mono".
This creates problems for appliations that sort and select fonts by
Family name.
[how]
Just like "Nerd Font" is abbreviated as "NF" in the Windows Family names
(to keep it short because of the 31 character length limit), the
"Nerd Font Mono" are now called "NFM" instead of just (also) "NF".
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Some symbol fonts might come with glyphs that have multiple codepoints.
When we want to patch them with `'Exact': true` (i.e. at their 'original'
codepoints) we want to patch them into the codepoint that has been used
in the selection process. That means between SymStart and SymEnd.
But this is not the case. We patch them in into their 'main' codepoint,
which can be outside the expected range of points.
This came up when patching with FontAwesome V6. It has for example these
glyphs:
Glyph 'music' has a main codepoint 0x1F3B5, but it is present in the
font also on codepoint 0xF001.
Glyph 'heard' has a main codepoint 0x1F9E1, but it is present in the
font also on codepoints 0x2665, 0x2764, 0xF004, 0xF08A, 0x1F499, ...
When doing a `'Exact': true` patch (i.e. exactEncoding = true) the
glyphs is patched into the target font at its (the glyph's) main
codepoint, regardless of our patch-codepoint-range.
[how]
We examine all codepoints that a glyph occupies in the symbol font. From
all these codepoints we take the nearest to the last glyph be patched
in. Nearest means from the possible codepoints the lowest that come
after the previous used codepoint.
For example the 'heard':
Last patched in codepoint was 0xF003.
Main codepoint: 0x1F9E1
Alternate codepoints: 0x2665, 0x2764, 0xF004, 0xF08A, 0x1F499, ...
-=> 0xF004
Later in the patching process we might encounter the same glyph again,
but this time the previous codepoint was 0xF089, so we need to take
0xF08A.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When users just download the script (and not the source glyphs) the
script fails with an obscure error message.
[how]
Check if the glyphdir exists at all. If not give a hint to download the
glyphs.
Check if the individual glyph font exists and is readable. Bail out if
not.
[note]
Cherry picked, was part of #741
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When one wants to use a custom symbol font and specifies it with an
absolute path, the glyphdir is still prepended.
That means that the argument to `--custom` is always used as relative
path (to `--glyphdir`), even when it starts with `/`. That is somehow
unexpected or at least inconvenient.
Example:
fontforge font-patcher --custom ~/Downloads/fa6.otf Inconsolata-Regular.otf
fa6.otf is searched for in ./src/glyphs/home/username/Downloads
[how]
Use Python function that handles joining path fragments. If a component is
an absolute path, all previous components are thrown away.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
I'm not sure why, but maybe the CI's Python is another version where the
syntax is not supported.
This has been introduced with commit
4a61afc83 font-patcher: Do not overwrite glyphs that are needed for basic glyphs
[how]
Use less sophisticated syntax.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Some glyphs that are tall and thin, are too big in the resulting patched
font, i.e. are higher than our 'line'.
At least for --mono fonts. The non-mono fonts do not rescale the
inserted glyphs at all, so there is no definition of 'too tall/wide'.
[how]
We want all glyphs to fit into the box defined by *_dim['height'] and
*_dim['widths'], as it also defines our powerline-glyph scaling and
horizontal and vertical advance widths.
So we need to take that value (instead of EM) for the scaling
calculation. The history of the use of EM here is a bit obscure, more
explanations in the PR.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
Sometimes the basic glyphs ([a-zA-Z] etc) are constructed in the font
from other glyphs via references. To keep those basic glyphs intact we
must not touch the referenced glyphs.
[how]
Crate a list of all glyphs referenced by the basic glyphs.
When patching in some new symbol - if that codepoint is in the list do
not overwrite it. Overwriting would break a basic glyph.
The user does not get the glyph that we would have patched in, but that
can not be helped if we want to keep the basic glyphs intact and not
'redesign' the complete font.
Fixes: #400
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
When the fontforge python bindings are not installed we fail while
importing psMat. The message suggests that fontforge itself is not
installed - which is not the real reason. One can use the libfontforfge
with the python-fontforge without having the GUI program fontforge.
Furthermore we link to outdated installation instructions.
[how]
We already check and report correctly what needs to be done with the
fontforge module import. As both modules are often in the same package
we should probably report the same message. That message holds correct
hints for Debian/Ubuntu. It does not have a link to fontforge, though.
[note]
Also update Debian package name.
Fixes: #725
Reported-by: Aniket Teredesai <a@aniketteredesai.com>
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
For some powerline symbols we add a certain amount of overlap into the
previous or next character to cover up a small gap between the symbols
that otherwise can show up as ugly thin (usually colored) line.
But after we carefully design that glyph with a bit overlap (over-sized
and having negative bearings) we remove all bearings. That breaks of
course the glyph and no actual overlap on the left side happens.
[how]
Just do not remove negative bearings on overlap-enabled glyphs. As they
are rescaled in both directions anyhow all bearings are wanted and must
be kept.
Reported-by: Mihail Ivanchev <@MIvanchev>
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
[why]
The params are half way handled as dict, but if unset it is an empty
string. That makes accessing it needlessly complicated.
[how]
With no functional change the params becomes now a dict, also when it
does not contain any particular information.
At the moment that seems not nessecary, as it can only contain one key:
'overlap'. We could also rename 'params' to 'overlap' and just store the
value.
But we keep the generic params dictionary as it might come in handy some
time in the far future when more parameters are added.
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
