Using the DecomposePointPen ↩
The script below shows how to decompose a glyph using the DecomposePointPen.
This approach is useful when the target glyph doesn’t have access to the parent font.
from mojo.pens import DecomposePointPen
f = CurrentFont()
# get a source glyph with components
srcGlyph = f['etilde']
# create a new empty glyph as destination for the decomposed copy
dstGlyph = RGlyph()
# copy the width of the source glyph to the destination glyph
dstGlyph.width = srcGlyph.width
# get a pen to draw into the destination glyph
dstPen = dstGlyph.getPointPen()
# create a decompose pen which writes its result into the destination pen
decomposePen = DecomposePointPen(f, dstPen)
# draw the source glyph into the decompose pen
# which draws into the destination pen
# which draws into the destination glyph
srcGlyph.drawPoints(decomposePen)
# insert the decomposed glyph into the font under a different name
f.insertGlyph(dstGlyph, name='test')
f['test'].markColor = 1, 0, 0, 1