User-Defined Sort Order

[ejj]

Hi

We are editing a font with ~38,000 glyphs and would like to view groups of 10-100 glyphs together. I would like to use Python to either reorder the glyphs according to a given input list or to hide glyphs not in the list. What would be the most straightforward way to do this?

[Alex Petrov (FontLab)]

Creating custom encoding file is the most easy way. It is described in the manual.

[ejj]

The manual says that there is an Encoding directory with *.enc files but our installations don't have that directory. Any ideas?

[Alex Petrov (FontLab)]

This is impossible. Are you on Windows or Mac?

[ejj]

I am on Windows (Vista). Perhaps you could suggest an alternative directory or file type -- that would likely be more helpful.

[Alex Petrov (FontLab)]

Oh, sorry. AFS/Win has no the "Encoding" directory installed.

So follow these steps:
1. Create the "Encoding" folder in C:\Program Files\FontLab\AFS4\ or wherever you have AFS installed.
2. Run AFS, open a font.
3. Click on the Names button in the Font window header to switch to the Names mode.
4. Now click on "ABCD" button (5th button in the header) and save the current encoding to the created at step 1 C:\Program Files\FontLab\AFS4\Encoding\ folder.
5. Quit AFS and edit the .enc file. Refer to the Manual to learn about the encoding file format and editing techniques.

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