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trufont / trufont.github.io

Teh font editor. Site web plutôt bien senti.
http://trufont.github.io/
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Tutorial section #7

Open pathumego opened 8 years ago

pathumego commented 8 years ago

As per trufont/trufont#223 We want to start a tutorial section. How do we do it?

adrientetar commented 8 years ago

Go ahead making something and then I'll look at it.

madig commented 8 years ago

I like the format of Glyphs's tutorials, like here: https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/sketching

How about we walk people through making a simple font:

  1. Using the drawing tools to make outlines for n and o some other glyphs. This explains how to work with corner and smooth points and how to use the tools.
  2. Explain the component system and make some composite glyphs with it
  3. Work people through the spacing dialog
  4. Go through the font properties dialog to set basic meta data
  5. Generate the font

The focus would be on explaining the tools and workflow, not designing glyphs.

madig commented 8 years ago

Oh, but I'd wait for trufont/trufont#176 before starting a tutorial, as those are rather basic and necessary tools.

pathumego commented 8 years ago

@madig wouldn hurt it to start planing. @davelab6 suggested working on something similar to DesingwithFontforge.com. We can simply port the exisiting content and rewrite to work with trufont

adrientetar commented 8 years ago

Yea I don't want a teach me type design thing, we have to stay focused on how to use the application. Examples don't hurt, but stay in line. I like that Glyphs documentation has smaller tutorials that are focused.

madig commented 8 years ago

I just found out about birdfont. They have tutorials on their page: https://birdfont.org/doku/doku.php/tutorials -- the focus is on tools.

pathumego commented 8 years ago

@adrientetar I agree. And I think Dave wrote video castas are better in this stage, on a different issue.

davelab6 commented 8 years ago

Oops, it was in the wrong issue. Here it is :)

I think this is a bit premature.

For those users who are eager to start, though, then I suggest accumulating "tips and tricks" for how YOU personally do the things that you frequently do. Screencasts are probably ideal for this, along with something that shows keypresses and mouseclicks on screen.

Some ideas:

Mac:

Windows:

GNU:

I'm not sure what the best stuff is. I am sad that @felipesanches never really shipped a libre version of for GNOME3, and don't know what libre tools to recommend to make narrated screencasts (if not video-narrated as silverback offers) but I think an easy proprietary solution is Google Hangouts on Air.

davelab6 commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/davelab6/Python-GUI-Programming-Cookbook-Second-Edition will be useful soon :)

Also https://github.com/driscollis/wxPython_recipes_book_code

madig commented 6 years ago

Trufont is going to be rewritten in tk? 😁