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should glifLib ignore glyph "name" attribute, and use the one from contents.plist instead?

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The UFO Specification says that: > When reading GLIF files, the name attribute should be ignored, since manual editing may have caused a mismatch with the glyph name as stored...

https://github.com/unified-font-object/ufoLib/issues/80#issuecomment-428527832 > for fetching unicodes, image file names and component references, glifLib is still using an expat parser. For consistency we should use ufoLib.etree API for those, like we do...

Appveyor is not hooked up

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See: https://github.com/unified-font-object/ufoNormalizer/pull/30#issuecomment-206893841

import TransformPointPen and RecordingPointPen from fontTools 4.2.0

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those two pens have been added to fontTools 4.2.0: https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/releases/tag/4.2.0 https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/pull/1766 @justvanrossum suggested that fontPens package reimports them from there, and fire a deprecation warning.

[mathTransform] what's the purpose of `test_functions` unit test?

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It's not clear to me what the purpose of `test_mathTransform.py::MathTransformTest.test_functions` is. It seems to assert that at least for some of the `_testData`, the three `testFunctions` yield slightly different results....

Does anybody fancy adding a short README text file at the top-level of the repository? I would like to use that for the `long_description` in `setup.py`, so that it can...

minimum required defcon version? fontParts? robofab?

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Extractor does not import `defcon` directly, so strictly speaking `defcon` is not an `install_requires`. However, you can't do anything with it if you don't provide a defcon `Font` instance, or...

move designSpaceDocument to fontTools.designspace?

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Erik, how about we move the `designSpaceDocument/__init__.py` module into a new `fontTools.designspace` module (or if you prefer camelCalse, `fontTools.designSpaceDocument`)? Only the generic part, not the ufo specific one (for now...

instance should have a 'lib' to store arbitrary data

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When glyphsLib converts a multiple-master glyphs file into a set of UFOs + a designspace file, we lack the ability to store Glyphs.app specific data such as instance custom parameters...

Hello, thanks for this library! I would like to use serde_yaml to serialize a type that contains BTreeMaps nested inside another BTreeMap, but not as the values but rather as...