mtiLib: Read Monotype FontDame source files¶
FontTools provides support for reading the OpenType layout tables produced by
Monotype’s FontDame and Font Chef font editors. These tables are written in a
simple textual format. The mtiLib
library parses these text files and creates
table objects representing their contents.
Additionally, fonttools mtiLib
will convert a text file to TTX XML.
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fontTools.mtiLib.
build
(f, font, tableTag=None)[source]¶ Convert a Monotype font layout file to an OpenType layout object
A font object must be passed, but this may be a “dummy” font; it is only used for sorting glyph sets when making coverage tables and to hold the OpenType layout table while it is being built.
- Parameters
f – A file object.
font (TTFont) – A font object.
tableTag (string) – If provided, asserts that the file contains data for the given OpenType table.
- Returns
An object representing the table. (e.g.
table_G_S_U_B_
)