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added your example to the issue on github...

you could also use itertools.product to find all combinations of two lists.

import itertools

count = 10
w = width() / count
h = height() / count

for x, y in itertools.product(range(count), range(count)):
    if (x+y) % 2:
        rect(x * w, y * h, w, h)

use:

glyphNames = ["a", "aring", "agrave"]
txt = FormattedString()
txt.appendGlyph(*glyphNames)
textBox(txt, (10, 10, 400, 400))

see https://www.drawbot.com/content/text/formattedString.html#drawBot.context.baseContext.FormattedString.appendGlyph

I guess you are making to complex

import re

# a list of words to format differently
wordsToItalicize = ["italic", "bar"]
# your text
txt = '''foo bar italic bar foo italic bar foo'''
# the default formatting as a reusable dict
defaultFormatting = dict(
    font="Skia",
    fill=(0, .2, .1, 1)
)
# the italic formatting as a reusable dict
italicFormatting = dict(
    font="Times-Italic",
    fill=(1, 0, 0, 1)
)
# compile a regex 
r = re.compile(f"({'|'.join(wordsToItalicize)})")
# start an empty formatted string
ftxt = FormattedString()
# start loop over all the items with the regex
for item in r.split(txt):
    # choose the correct formatting
    if item in wordsToItalicize:
        settings = italicFormatting
    else:
        settings = defaultFormatting
    # append the text in the formatting text
    ftxt.append(item, **settings)
# draw the text
textBox(ftxt, (10, 10, 100, 100))

continue here https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/428

see the python courseware about strings: https://www.drawbot.com/content/courseware.html#strings

you can not have the same quote mark inside a string and to indicate a string.

print("d'étude")  
print('d"étude') 
print('d\'étude') # escaping '

good luck!

could you provide an example where a word is split at the ' mark?

that is indeed correct

see the documentation: https://www.drawbot.com/content/text/formattedString.html#drawBot.context.baseContext.FormattedString.openTypeFeatures

(+ I've changed the title of this topic)

I dont know glyhps but I would encourage you to use a BezierPath object instead see https://www.drawbot.com/content/shapes/bezierPath.html#drawBot.context.baseContext.BezierPath.translate

thanks @ConnorDav, the width and height of frames must be even numbers. I could happen if you scale up the resolution the width and height becomes odd numbers.

Could you post an simplified example causing this traceback?

enjoy!