Posts made by frederik

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!

Could you elaborate what is not working?

Tracking can be added to formattedString during init or as with the t.tracking(value) method.

Text_sample = "Test"

textBox(
    FormattedString(
        txt=Text_sample, 
        fontSize=50, 
        tracking=200, 
        font='Helvetica'
    ), 
    (10, 10, 400, 400)
)

textBox(
    FormattedString(
        txt='Test', 
        fontSize=50, 
        tracking=200, 
        font='Helvetica'
    ), 
    (10, 300, 400, 400)
)

thanks for sharing!

could you make an example script throwing this traceback?

is your drawbot up to date? (the module)

Bernd Volmer made this cool installation a few years back at Typo Berlin

1 inch is 72 points...

this should do it!

widthInInches = 3
heightInInches = 5

newPage(widthInInches * 72, heightInInches * 72)

looks already cool!

The big difference between yours and the example you refer to is that the letters wait until all the following shaded letters arrive to the left and the right.

FYI: kerning over several variable settings does not work in Illustrator

should be fixed now or at least its working for me...

cool!

still, I don't get what the kerning value would be?

Imagine an axis with a super black with almost no kerning and a tiny light with lots of kerning: the pair AV where A is somewhere in the super black part and V in the tiny light part. Optical kerning is not an option here

you could also disable the kern feature, adding a small number to every letter seems like an easy cheat

mmm, this is not possible: see it as different styles. There is no kerning between a bold T and a light T of the same family. (This is also not possible in Indesign)

But you could write something to typeset an apply whatever kern value. What would that value be? is it the interpolated kerning of both instances divided by two? this could go wrong

mmm, you need to use all the powers of drawBot!!

pageSize = "A4"

path = 'AdobeVFPrototype.ttf'

border = 20

txt = FormattedString(
    font=path,
    fontSize=20
)
txt.appendGlyph(*txt.listFontGlyphNames())

while txt:
    newPage(pageSize)
    txt = textBox(txt, (border, border, width() - border*2, height() - border*2))
    

could you try again? it seems twitter is not automatically using https