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Title Case for Movable Type
22nd May 2008 — 1 comment
John Gruber shared a code snippet that converts strings to Title Case. It’s actually more clever than it sounds, taking into account the need to keep a collection of small words uncapitalised, and correctly handling punctuation issues. Here’s a version…
SVN Helper Script for RoboFab
18th Mar 2007 — 8 comments
Following on from my article about version control for typeface development, I’ve updated the “Export to UFO and commit to SVN” python script I used as an example. This present article will be the script’s permanent home. I can’t offer…
Typeface Development Bundle for TextMate
1st Mar 2007 — 2 comments
For Mac users who rock the magnificent TextMate text editor, I’ve put together a small typeface development Bundle. At the moment it covers Adobe’s OpenType Feature File Specification used by the AFDKO. As well as syntactic highlighting, there are also…
Version Control for Typeface Development
3rd Feb 2007 — 3 comments
I’ve wanted to write a bit about version control in relation to font software for a while, but Version Control is a big subject (hence the capitals!) and has been extensively covered elsewhere for software development, so I’ll try to…
Widon’t for Movable Type
26th Aug 2006 — 12 comments
Widon’t for Movable Type is a plugin to prevent widows from appearing in titles and entry headers. Widows are single words, left on their lonesome on a line at the end of a paragraph, and generally look poo. Widon’t simply…