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The replacement for RoboFab
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Can we make `font.insertGlyph` return that glyph #727

Open ryanbugden opened 3 months ago

ryanbugden commented 3 months ago

It would be useful to be able to store the just-inserted glyph into a variable on the fly.

f = CurrentFont()
new_glyph = f.insertGlyph(f['a'], 'b')
new_glyph.moveBy((999,999))

Currently, these are the options:

  1. With insertGlyph

    f = CurrentFont()
f.insertGlyph(f['a'], 'b')
new_glyph = f['b']
new_glyph.moveBy((999,999))

  2. With newGlyph

    f = CurrentFont()
new_glyph = f.newGlyph('b')
new_glyph.appendGlyph(f['a'])
new_glyph.width = f['a'].width
new_glyph.moveBy((999,999))

  3. The best way probably, but not really documented:

    f = CurrentFont()
new_glyph = f['b'] = f['a']