statusbar icons override alphanumeric characters v1 NEEDS REVISION

Zach DeCook: 1
 Scripts: Enable patching out invisible glyphs with another font

 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

[PATCH] Scripts: Enable patching out invisible glyphs with another font Export this patch

This is useful for mixing icons with text
without changing fonts midway through.

Only the blank glyphs are removed, so the rest need to be referenced from the donor font directly.

    font="DonorFont-statusbar, DonorFont"
in your application is an easy way to configure it.

Or that could be handled by fontconfig as an alias (see `man fonts.conf`)
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 patchicons.pe | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 patchicons.pe

diff --git a/patchicons.pe b/patchicons.pe
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..594f1a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patchicons.pe
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/usr/bin/fontforge
+
+if ( $argc != 3 )
+	Print("Replace blank glyphs with those from another font.")
+	Print("Usage: " + $0 + " 'statusbar.sfd' 'DonorFont.ttf'")
+	Quit(1)
+endif
+
+# Copy from the donor font.
+Open($2)
+Select("%", "%", "0", "9", "_", "_", "a", "z");
+Copy()
+weight = $weight
+copyright = $copyright
+version = $version
+macstyle = $macstyle
+
+# Paste into statusbar.
+Open($1)
+Select("%", "%", "0", "9", "_", "_", "a", "z");
+Paste()
+name = $2:t:r + "-statusbar"
+SetFontNames(name, name, name, weight, copyright + "statusbar:" + $copyright, version + "-" + $version)
+SetMacStyle(macstyle)
+
+# Save into current directory as new font.
+Generate("./" + $2:t:r + "-statusbar.otf")
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