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add typetuner support #11

Closed mhosken closed 6 years ago

mhosken commented 7 years ago

smith has the specification for a typetuner= parameter in a font creation, but it currently does nothing. We need to write the code for this. But what does this actually do?

bobh0303 commented 7 years ago

For now, until we figure out how to extract some aliases, we assume the typetuner xml file is manually maintained. Thus the command to add tuner information is:

typetuner -o out.ttf add typetuner.xml in.ttf

I'm sure that isn't the syntax you need to pick up the two input files and specify the output, but should be enough info for you to build the rules into smith.

bobh0303 commented 7 years ago

In case it is of help to the person implementing this, an equivalent post-build process we're using in LateefGR is:

font(target = process('LateefGR-Regular.ttf', cmd('${TYPETUNER} -o ${TGT} add ${SRC} ${DEP}', 'source/typetuner.xml')),
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mhosken commented 6 years ago

Being addressed in #48