Re: Google Summer of Code - Ideas List, please discuss

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> wrote:
> In another thread Han-Wen wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Also, nowadays, fontforge supports Python scripting. We could redo all
>> the craziness involving generated files and legacy .pe scripts in
>> plain Python.
>>
>> It would be a nice and meaty project for someone to get their hands
>> dirty (gsoc, frogs?)
>
> Looks appropriate, however i'm not sure if i understood it correctly.
> You mean sth like:
> Rewrite font building system.  Create a robust, scalable and easily
> maintainable system for creating Open Type Fonts from Metafont code
> (merging and dividing fontsets, handling different design sizes) using
> Fontforge's built-in Python scripting support.  Requirements: Python,
> basic font and Metafont skills.
> Han-Wen, could you confirm that i got it right?

You'll also need to understand or learn a fair bit about how font formats work.

Somewhat independently, there is a mf2pt1.pl Perl script that
(shudder) generates .pe script to transform a metapost output to a
Type 1 font.  I guess that could be done more concisely directly as a
python script.

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