spaces_dashes.ff

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2008-2010, 2012, 2014 Andrey V. Panov 
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
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 * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

# This fontforge script proposed for making spaces and dashes

#italic_angle=$italicangle
pi=4.0*ATan2(1.0,1.0)
tan_it = 1.0*Tan($italicangle*pi/180.0)

Reencode("unicode")

# spaces
#Select("space")
#CopyReference()
#Select("nonbreakingspace")
#Paste()
dub_glyph.ff("space","nonbreakingspace")
dub_glyph.ff("hyphen","softhyphen")
Select("emdash")
width = GlyphInfo("Width")
Select("uni2003") # em space
SelectMore("uni2001") # em quad
SetWidth(width)
 Select("uni2002") # en space
 SelectMore("uni2000") # en quad
 SetWidth(Round(width/2.0))
 Select("uni2004") # 1/3 em space
 SetWidth(Round(width/3.0))
 Select("uni2005") 
 SetWidth(Round(width/4.0))
 Select("uni2006") 
 SetWidth(Round(width/6.0))
 Select("uni2009") 
 SetWidth(Round(width/5.0))
 # Hair space 
 # Cambria and Lucida use emdash/18
 # TNR and Arial - emdash/12
 # Droid and Dejavu - emdash/10
 Select("uni200A") 
 SetWidth(Round(width/18.0))
 # MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE
 Select(0u205F) 
 SetWidth(Round(width*2.0/9.0))
# Select("uni200B","uni200D") 
# SetWidth(0)
# Select("A")
# width = -GlyphInfo("Kern","C") # Thinest kerning pair
# if (width > 0)
#  Select("uni200A") 
#  SetWidth(width)
# endif
Select("zero")
width = GlyphInfo("Width")
Select("uni2007") # figure space
SetWidth(width)
Select("endash")
width1 = GlyphInfo("Width")
if (width1 == width)
 dub_glyph.ff("endash","figuredash")
endif
dub_glyph.ff("hyphen",0u2010)
dub_glyph.ff("hyphen",0u2011)
Select("period")
width = GlyphInfo("Width")
Select("uni2008") # punctuation space
SetWidth(width)
# NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
dub_glyph.ff(0u2009,0u202F)

# format zero width characters
Select(0u200B,0u200F)
SelectMore(0u2028,0u202E)
SelectMore(0u2060,0u206F)
SetWidth(0)

Reencode("unicode")