Towards addressing https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/issues/1070
The new instantiateVariableFont function takes a variable TTFont and a
dictionary of axes locations and returns a static TTFont instance.
The current code modifies the varfont in-place. To adapt it for
generating multiple instances from the same varfont, for now I simply
resorted to making a copy (can be optionally disabled by setting
inplace=True).
Also, replaced print() with log.info().
it might be deprecated or ignored in some rasterizers, but I don't
see why we should discard it, if it's present in the input font.
This also allows to set the flag, which may turn out to be useful
in some circumstances.
cf. https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/253#issuecomment-335600887
A filter pen that passes outline data to another pen, but reversing
the winding direction of all contours.
Like ufoLib's ReverseContourPointPen, but using segment-wise pen
interface, without additional point/segment converters, and without
ufoLib.
627f997ddb/Lib/ufoLib/pointPen.py (L327-L406)
A filter pen that accumulates contour data, passes it through a
`filterContour` method as the contour is closed or ended, and
draws the result with the output pen.
For reproducible builds, check the presence of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
environment variable and use it for the time stamp. This affects the
head.modified (and head.created in merge.py).
See https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
Instead of raising AssertionError when users define custom axes
without explicit `<labelname xml:lang="en">ZZZZ</labelname>` element,
it's better to use the axis' name attribute, and treat it as "en"
language.
For example, if users generate the designspace from SuperPolator,
they can't edit the axis labelname attribute from the UI (or maybe
it's just me that couldn't figure out how to do it).
