[Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

[Yash Agarwal]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:18 PM Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> On 23 May 2016 at 18:52, Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>    - Dave, Eli could you guys make a UI mock for the character map,  so
>>    that I can build it tomorrow
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> I think the current plan is for a horizontal bar along the top, like in
> Eli's HTML mock:
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> https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/mockups/EditFontsMockUpJS.activity/
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>

My aim for today was to build this, but I couldn't figure out how to make
the Gtk layout, Then I decided to go through this link to gain more
understanding about the Gtk workings and basic fundamentals, though its for
Gtk 2 it explains the fundamentals quite well
http://www.pygtk.org/dist/pygtk2-tut.pdf

I also found this amazing list of demos
https://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/tree/demos/gtk-demo/demos

apart from this I also reread the FLOSS Manual to better understand the
tasks at hand. Well thats all I did Today, and I'll hope to make a working
demo the character map tomorrow.

I think we will also need a table, like the TruFont one:
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> https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/files/img/3.png
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>>    - [Regarding defcon] I am having a some trouble understanding the
>>    concept behind the representation factories and notifications,
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> Please be more specific, perhaps quoting the part of the docs you are
> unclear about :)
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> http://ts-defcon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/concepts/representations.html
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> http://ts-defcon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/concepts/notifications.html
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern
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This was what I was looking for, thanks, Gtk also uses this

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how should I implement these in the glyphRenderer Class?
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> I'm not sure - what does TruFont do?
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>>    - whats the difference between an Anchor and Point in an UFO file?
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> A point is a bezier point, part of a contour.
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> An anchor is a 'singleton' point, used to 'snap' glyphs together using
> OpenType Features (GPOS/GSUB code)
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> https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/diacritics
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do we need to implement these in our activity?

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> https://fontforge.github.io/overview.html#Anchors
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> --
> Cheers
> Dave
>
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