[smufl-discuss] Re: script for generating minimal metadata

[Robert Piéchaud]

Opening LilyPond's Emmentaler font, I can see that _friendly_unique_glyph_identifiers_ == _unicode_names_.
Sometimes > 31 characters.
So I don’t feel alone…

Robert

> On 19 Dec 2014, at 16:15, Daniel Spreadbury <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Abraham wrote:
>
>> There's only one problem (Daniel, if you could please chime in on
>> this). The metadata glyph names end up being the _unicode_ names, not
>> the _human-friendly_ names (like "noteheadBlack").
>>
>> Is this an issue?
>
> I would suggest that the font metadata file should indeed use the unique
> glyph identifiers rather than their code points. The approach you suggest
> (i.e. mapping them via the glyphnames.json file) is the same kind of
> approach we use with our own internal scripts.
>
> Daniel
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