accents

Tools to work with accented glyphs using Glyph Construction syntax.

ACCENTS = ['acute', 'grave', 'circumflex', 'dieresis', 'tilde', 'macron', 'breve', 'dotaccent', 'ring', 'cedilla', 'hungarumlaut', 'ogonek', 'caron']

A basic default list of latin diacritics.

buildConstructionGlyph(constructionGlyph, font, clear=True, autoUnicodes=True)

Low-level function to build a ConstructionGlyph in a given font.

Parameters

constructionGlyph – A ConstructionGlyph object.

Returns

The newly constructed glyph.

buildGlyphConstruction(font, construction, clear=True, verbose=False, indentLevel=0, autoUnicodes=True)

Build glyph from Glyph Construction rule in the given font.

Parameters
  • font (RFont) – A font object.

  • construction (str) – A Glyph Construction rule.

  • clear (bool) – Clear glyph contents before constructing new glyph.

  • verbose (bool) – Turn text output on/off.

  • indentLevel (int) – Number of indents before text output lines.

  • autoUnicodes (bool) – Automatically set the unicode value for the constructed glyph.

Returns

The newly constructed glyph.

from hTools3.modules.accents import buildGlyphConstruction
construction = "agrave = a + grave@center,`top+100`"
f = CurrentFont()
buildGlyphConstruction(f, construction, clear=True, verbose=False, indentLevel=0, autoUnicodes=True)
buildAccentedGlyphs(font, glyphNames, glyphConstructions, clear=True, markColor=None, verbose=False, indentLevel=0, autoUnicodes=True)

Build accented glyphs in the current font using Glyph Construction rules.

Parameters
  • font (RFont) – A font object.

  • glyphNames (list) – A list of accented glyph names to build in the given font.

  • glyphConstructions (str) – A string of Glyph Construction definitions, one per line.

  • clear (bool) – Clear glyph contents before constructing new glyphs.

  • markColor (tuple) – Optional mark color for the constructed glyphs.

  • verbose (bool) – Turn text output on/off.

  • indentLevel (int) – Number of indents before text output lines.

  • autoUnicodes (bool) – Automatically set the unicode value for the constructed glyphs.

from hTools3.modules.accents import buildAccentedGlyphs

f = CurrentFont()

constructions = """        agrave = a + grave@center,`top+100`
aacute = a + acute@center,`top+100`
"""

buildAccentedGlyphs(f, ['agrave'], constructions, verbose=True, indentLevel=0, markColor=(0, 1, 1, 0.5), clear=True)
buildGlyphConstructions(font, glyphConstructions, clear=True, markColor=None, verbose=False, indentLevel=0, autoUnicodes=True)

Build new glyphs in a font from a string of Glyph Construction definitions.

Parameters
  • font (RFont) – A font object.

  • glyphConstructions (str) – A string of Glyph Construction definitions, one per line.

  • clear (bool) – Clear glyph contents before constructing new glyph.

  • markColor (tuple) – Optional mark color for the constructed glyphs.

  • verbose (bool) – Turn text output on/off.

  • indentLevel (int) – Number of indents before text output lines.

  • autoUnicodes (bool) – Automatically set the unicode value for the constructed glyphs.

  • glyphNames (list) – A list of glyph names to restrict the output. If the list is empty, all glyph construction definitions are built.

Returns

A list with the names of all built glyphs.

from hTools3.modules.accents import buildGlyphConstructions

f = CurrentFont()

constructions = """\
agrave = a + grave@center,`top+100`
aacute = a + acute@center,`top+100`
"""

buildGlyphConstructions(f, constructions, verbose=True, indentLevel=0, markColor=(0, 1, 1, 0.5), clear=True)
extractGlyphConstructions(font, glyphNames=None, accents=['acute', 'grave', 'circumflex', 'dieresis', 'tilde', 'macron', 'breve', 'dotaccent', 'ring', 'cedilla', 'hungarumlaut', 'ogonek', 'caron'])

Extract Glyph Construction rules from components in glyphs.

Parameters
  • font (RFont) – A font object.

  • glyphNames (list) – A list with names of glyphs from which to extract glyph constructions.

  • accents (list) – A list with names of glyphs which are not base glyphs. (optional)

Returns

A string of Glyph Construction definitions, one per line.

>>> from hTools3.modules.accents import buildGlyphConstructions
>>> f = CurrentFont()
>>> constructions = extractGlyphConstructions(f, glyphNames=['agrave', 'aacute'])
>>> print(constructions)
agrave = a + grave
aacute = a + acute

Note

The extracted glyph construction definitions are very basic. You’ll probably want to refine them with positioning instructions. See the Glyph Construction documentation for syntax examples.

extractGlyphConstruction(glyph, accents=['acute', 'grave', 'circumflex', 'dieresis', 'tilde', 'macron', 'breve', 'dotaccent', 'ring', 'cedilla', 'hungarumlaut', 'ogonek', 'caron'])

Extract Glyph Construction rule from a glyph with components.

Parameters
  • glyph (RGlyph) – A glyph object.

  • accents (list) – A list with names of glyphs which are not base glyphs. (optional)

Returns

A string of Glyph Construction definitions, one per line.

>>> from hTools3.modules.accents import extractGlyphConstruction
>>> g = CurrentGlyph()
>>> construction = extractGlyphConstruction(g)
>>> print(construction)
agrave = a + grave