And the language geek asks for IPA...

[HughP]

@randallmunroe and others (@kolbylyn @rgbkrk ), I was reading the discussion on #9 and... Sooo I thought I'd ask, is it beyond all geekery sensibleness to ask for IPA characters to be added to the font? I mean we're not all astronomy and math students who read xkcd.... ;-) If we can start with some hand writing samples again, I'll look at reaching out to some font developers and adding the glyphs to the font proper... but I'd need the original hand writing samples. I guess much like what was asked for and provided in #9.

[certik]

As a start, here are the ones for Czech:

Á É Í Ó Ú Ů Ý Č Ď Ě Ň Ř Š Ť Ž
á é í ó ú ů ý č ď ě ň ř š ť ž

[pelson]

As a start, here are the ones for Czech:
Á É Í Ó Ú Ů Ý Č Ď Ě Ň Ř Š Ť Ž
á é í ó ú ů ý č ď ě ň ř š ť ž

@certik It may be possible to manufacture these glyphs from what we already have. It would involve a bit of programatic hack and slice of the glyphs coming out of https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font/blob/master/xkcd-script/samples/handwriting.png, but it is conceivable to do a good-enough job of it.

No such luck for the IPA characters though...

[thaliaarchi]

I frequently view XKCD comics using XKCD Open Source which uses this font. Unfortunately, of the German diacritics, this font only supports Ü. This means that sights like "ERKLäREN" are common where ä is in a fallback font. Could Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü, and ẞ/ß be added to this font?
In 1647 Diacritics, there are several diacritics that could be the source for these additions: résümȩ̊́́́̆.́́́

[fuhrmanator]

I was using this font for handwritten-looking diagrams for my courses in French, when I realized the accented characters were standing out like boring type... XKCD or OCD?

[HughP]

I found another missing character I use all the time today; and now I must write "sans em-dash".

[dummy-index]

I add accented letters (includes cedilla, ogonek, caron, breve), en-dash, em-dash, degree, minus (longer than hyphen-minus), multiply, long s, etc., and kernings.
https://github.com/dummy-index/xkcd-font/tree/brushup/xkcd-script/font

[HughP]

@dummy-index do you have a total list of characters? when you added accented letters did you add these accents as combining diacritics or as composite character/pre-composed characters?

[dummy-index]

@HughP

as combining diacritics or as composite character/pre-composed characters?

Both. precomposition runs based on the Unicode Character Database.
Like a 1647: Diacritics

a total list of characters

charlist.txt

import os
import fontforge
base = '../font/'
ttf = os.path.join(base, 'xkcd-script.ttf')
font = fontforge.open(ttf)
glyph_iter = font.__iter__()
for glyphname in glyph_iter:
	if font.__contains__(glyphname):
		glyph = font.__getitem__(glyphname)
		if glyph.unicode >= 0:
			print(hex(glyph.unicode))
font.close()

[HughP]

@dummy-index I was looking at the font metadata, and it says "Version 1.0" But is this still accurate?

[dummy-index]

@HughP I'm thinking, but want to change the version number system to such as 1.000 .
(my immediate goal is Ver. 1.100, and release candidates are 1.090, 1.091, ...)

[HughP]

Well I definitely recommend semantic versioning https://semver.org/ BUT in this case, IF I understand the creative work you released, I think it is a fork of the original. In that case it needs to indicate that.... Something like this: https://dylanbeattie.net/2017/01/26/semantic-versioning-with-powershell_26.html But I have never done this before, but I am interested in this notation for other professional projects I am involved with.

[dummy-index]

Mmm... What is the public API of this font? Which do you think the "Version 1.0" of master corresponds to, 1.0.0 or 0.1.0? Or set the version number of the generator script?
Certainly I should add some string to the version, because I'm an outsider of ipyhon project.

[HughP]

1. I am not sure that one can equate a version of a font to an API. So, I don't think there is a public API of a font.
2. I think that "Version 1.0" = 1.0.0
3. Good question. Have you reached out to the original project (from which you forked) to ask them for feed back? They might accept your contribution and increment their version number rather than introducing a variant in the wild.
4. Definitely add a string to indicate it is a variant of an other project.