Graide is an integrated development environment that can be used to develop fonts with Graphite features. Graphite is a "smart font" system developed specifically to handle the complexities of lesser-known languages of the world.
Graide uses GrCompiler.
Please install it.
Alternatively you can bundle it with this Python package.
Either set the environment variable GRCOMPILER_BUNDLE
to a git reference (e.g. master) and be sure to have its build
toolchain installed or set the variable to any other value and
the builtin version is copied to the package.
You can install graide from from this directory with pip:
pip install -e .
Graide also uses Graphite.
Install it by cloning that repo and running the above pip command.
You will also need to obtain a graphite2.dll from
Team City
using the guest login provided there (or by building it from source)
and put the dll somewhere on your PATH
(or set the PYGRAPHITE2_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to its absolute path file name).
Additionally, run 1 (with Qt4) or 2 (with Qt5):
pip install PySidepip install PySide2
You will then have the Python script graide installed.
(Instructions for installing Graide into a Python virtual environment and optionally building an MS Windows exe are in BuildingGraideExe.md.)
The build dependencies are listed in setup.py's install_requires.
Graide uses QtPy to abstract its
Qt bindings. Therefore PySide
or PySide2 is needed as an
additional runtime dependency. Using any PyQt version is not
supported.
For those wanting to add images to the lib/graide/images directory. Make sure you update the pyresources.qrc and run:
pyside2-rcc -o pyresources.py pyresources.qrc
sed -i -e 's/PySide2/qtpy/' pyresources.py
so that you can see the images from the program.