Open tiroj opened 1 day ago
Ah, that part of the discussion was meant literally and refers to designspace file map
elements:
https://fonttools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/designspaceLib/xml.html#map-element
So yes, abstractly, one could consider the mapping (and probably many mappings) to run in either direction, those terms refer to specific XML properties that aren't ambiguous in that way.
I suspect this may be confusing to some font developers
because ‘input’ and ‘output’ depend on perspective. From a font maker perspective, the design units are in the input from the font and the user units are the output to the client software. From a user perspective, the user units are the input from the client software and the design units are the output from the font.
I think the latter is what is implied by the use of input and output in the variable location spec, but maybe clarify this in some way?