An XML-based hinting language for TrueType fonts
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xgridfit-3
A TrueType hinting language
Xgridfit is an language for hinting TrueType fonts. It is an XML-based language, similar to (and in fact inspired by) XSLT. It has been around since circa 2006, but version 3 was reborn as a (largely) Python program with Python dependencies. Xgridfit through version 2 was verbose and awkward to use. Version 3 featured a new compact syntax, and the current version (3.22) adds a YAML-based language focused on describing the positions of points relative to the origin of a glyph's grid or to other points rather than issuing commands for positioning them. This language (call it Ygridfit) is simple and easy to write, but its main purpose is to support ygt, a forthcoming graphical hinting tool.
Documentation of the XML-based language (both full and compact syntax), is available at the GitHub development site. Install by downloading from PyPi.
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