FontForge Harmonizer?

Michael Vokits

Rather than hijack this thread ("Robofont Harmonizer"), I decided to spawn another, albeit highly similar, one. RMX Harmonizer gets an awful lot of praise and its results are fscking fabulous, but it's commercial, expensive and requires some expensive software and hardware to host it. Any options?

Dave Crossland

FontForge is unlikely to see any serious new features added. I hope Adrien Tetar's PyQT + defcon based editor will be published soon. I also think Glyphr Studio has some promise. 

Michael Vokits

Not necessarily in FF, but in one of its scripting languages. (Not that I can get the "Tools" menu to ungray, so I'm probably not the best target audience for this.)

As for FF, the only feature I think it actually lacks is the ability to always show node positions, and that's purely a preference thing (it's a real drag having to go to the View menu over and over).

Dave Crossland

Not that I can get the "Tools" menu to ungray

Please post a gist of your script and I can take a look Maybe https://github.com/davelab6/fontforge-anthozoa/blob/master/Anthozoa.py#L411-L416 can help

the only feature I think it actually lacks is the ability to always show node positions,

You mean like the node position co-ordinates, like this?

Michael Vokits

Nodes and handles, yes. (The on- and off-curve points; I'm probably misusing the terms.) I can get some of that through Number Points -> Positions, but it doesn't show the positions of the handles, and once you change anything, the position display is lost.

Anyway, this is just my own preference. I've never found an editor that gives me that kind of info and control (although ISTR the demo of FontLab having it, lo these many years ago), so it's clearly not a feature anybody else finds desirable or relevant.

Nina Stössinger

I've never found an editor that gives me that kind of info and control

As an aside, RoboFont appears to do perfectly fine displaying coordinates of both on- and off-curve points.

Michael Vokits

Cool, cool. Looks like my memories of running the FL demo were correct. But yes, that's exactly what I want.

Dave Crossland

If you want to hire someone to implement this for FontForge, Glyphr or defconqt, I can connect you with reliable developers

I filed https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/2485 and https://github.com/mattlag/Glyphr-Studio/issues/213 - defconqt's issue tracker isn't public yet.