You can drag and drop a glyph selection to change the order. The drag starts after 0.4 of a sec, to prevent accidentally reordering of glyphs.

You can also set a glyph order with a script:

font = CurrentFont()
# this is a list of glyph names
font.glyphOrder = ["a", "agrave", "b", "c"] 

if you changed the glyph order (manually or script) the sorting is disabled.

There is no glyph index in the UFO data, but each glyph has an glyph.index returning the index related to the glyph order. Please take note that the glyph order in the final font can be different if you don’t added .notdef or enabled “Use MacRoman as the start of the glyph order” while compiling.

Adding or removing glyphs will always alter the glyph order. It is depending on your settings where new glyphs would be added (at the end or somewhere in a sorted position)

Good luck

RoboFont pops up a cubic < -> quad conversion warning whenever a UFO has mixed curves. It measures the amount of cubic segment and quad segments and propose the biggest number as default action to convert the whole font. RoboFont doesn’t allow mixed curves in a single UFO.

The spline conversion option in the preferences are only used while generating a binary font.

converting curve descriptions can be done with a script (please save you font first!)

from lib.tools.bezierTools import curveConverter

font = CurrentFont()

coreFont = font.naked()

for glyph in coreFont:
    # convert from cubic to quad
    curveConverter.bezier2quadratic(glyph)
    
    # convert from quad to cubic
    # curveConverter.quadratic2bezier(glyph)
    
coreFont.segmentType = glyph.segmentType

print "done"

good luck

Hi

there already an official DrawBot extension but it needs a RF beta. The next update is required to get DrawBot inside RoboFont working. TinyDrawBot will be deprecated and removed form the git repo.

The extension will support everything DrawBot has, as it is really the same code :)
But it has some benefits of using all the RoboFont functionality.

thanks

It is indeed recommended for FDK to be installed on a specific path.

For ttfautohint RoboFont is checking it with which ttfautohint terminal command to see if it installed on your local machine. In a normal setup it should be something like /usr/local/bin/ttfautohint
Next to be installed ttfautohint requires an ‘o’ glyph in the font otherwise it just fails to autohint. (see ttfautohint -h)

hope this helps.

Inside a glyph in UFO the unicode value is stored as decimal number. The search happens on that data. The value you see is just a representation of that value.

Will see what I can do about that….

oh

thanks, will be fixed in the next version

It moved to a more logical place: the display options in the bottom left of your glyph window.