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The MFEK Foundation is now maintaining sfdLib, a @FontForge library primarily for converting SFD fonts to UFO (but which is easily extended to support non-UFO formats) originally by @KhaledGhetas (thank you!).
@fr_brennan just made its first PyPI release: pypi.org/project/sfdLib/
Yes and you could check them into Git so even if FontForge wrongly deletes them you can reclaim them.
This does happen, unfortunately.
There could be some autosave data in your Config directory, probably in .config/fontforge of your user home directory. If not there's not much more to be done unless you may have a backup of that directory during the time you were working.
If you work a lot with SFD files, there is now a tested Python library for encoding/decoding the quoted strings in them.
sfdutf7·py — github.com/ctrlcctrlv/sfdutf…
PyPI: pypi.org/project/sfdutf7/
~ @fr_brennan
This is the most horrifying code I've ever written.
Thanks for the IMAPClient implementation @mjs0 lol
github.com/ctrlcctrlv/sfdutf…
(Oh, also, this is @fr_brennan, this is a shared account. I wasn't answering the one who first answered you. Hi.)
If my idea to use dev2{dflt} for 'pres' 19 does not work you're probably going to want to make a GitHub issue, there are limits to what can be solved via Twitter. 🙇
I also don't understand why you only specified non-dflt languages for 'pres' lookup 19.
Stick to {dflt} unless you've a good reason, there's no reason you'd ever need a set including {dflt} as {dflt} is the set of all languages for the script.
Meanwhile 'pres' lookup 11 looks alright to me, although you probably can cut latn{dflt}.
You can't mix dev2 and deva like this and expect it to work.
Also, I must caution you, Indic shaping is likely broken in MetricsView. Please rely on HarfBuzz. Cf github.com/fontforge/fontfor….
③ Maybe someday ufo2ft will support it so `fontmake` can just build a font that has SVG data in its .glif files.
Workarounds for SVG-in-OT:
① You can try a script called SVGinOTlayersCompositor·py by @glukfonts: github.com/glukfonts/SVGinOT…
② You can use @FontTools ttLib class `table_S_V_G_`, passing `<svgDoc>` elements to `font["SVG"].fromXML("svgDoc", …)` as a post-processing step.
By "SVG font", FontForge means the outmoded SVG 1.1 standard, *not* SVG-in-OpenType, a type of OpenType font which contains SVG files for its glyphs, which it cannot yet create.
And, even its SVG 1.1 support has issues, cf. e.g. github.com/fontforge/fontfor….
Workarounds below.
If you've ever tried to use FontForge in Wine you may have found you had no keyboard input.
A workaround is now available: github.com/fontforge/fontfor…
One shouldn't need FontForge in Wine, this is mostly of interest to developers or those wanting to use Windows-only Python code.
