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ToxicFrog / Ligaturizer

Programming Fonts with Ligatures added (& a script to add them to other fonts)
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The command run by make (and written in the docs) doesn't work with some versions of Fontforge #30

Closed sylbru closed 6 years ago

sylbru commented 6 years ago

I'm using Fontforge 20120731.b-7.1, which is the version in the repos on Linux Mint 18.1 Serena.

Running make or the command fontforge -lang=py ligaturize.py <INPUT> <OUTPUT> launched the GUI with an error message saying "File -lang=py does not exist."

I had to fix the command like this: fontforge -lang=py -script ligaturize.py <INPUT> <OUTPUT> (prefix ligaturize.py with -script).

sylbru commented 6 years ago

Forgot to say, thanks so much for this script! Also the fact that it allows the user to skip some ligatures is great.

ToxicFrog commented 6 years ago

That version of fontforge, going by the name, is six years old. I've been doing my testing with fontforge-20170730.

It might be worth looking for a more up to date .deb of fontforge that will install on Mint.

sylbru commented 6 years ago

Like I explained, I found the solution for my case. I just thought it might be worthwhile to mention this in the docs, and I wanted some feedback on this.

ToxicFrog commented 6 years ago

@tinnus pointed out in #39 that -script works with both new and old versions of fontforge, so I've added that to the makefile and documentation.