Font Development Support for Visual Studio Code

Work in progress to add support for common font development tasks based on the Python font tools toolchain (FontTools, ufo2ft, etc.)

Features

• Syntax highlighting for .ttx files including TrueType assembly and Visual TrueType assembly
• Syntax highlighting for standalone TrueType assembly files (.ttasm)
• Syntax highlighting for standalone Visual TrueType assembly files (.vttasm)
• Makes ttx files navigable by supporting SFNT table tags as document symbols. Press cmd-shift-O to jump to a symbol.
• Completions for all TrueType instructions
• Documentation for some TrueType instructions

Release Notes

0.3.0

• Add a formatter for TTX and VTT assembly. Press opt-shift-F to reindent a source file.

How To Build The Extension

If you don’t want to install the extension through the VisualStudio marketplace, you can build and install it from the source code:

$ npm install -g @vscode/vsce
$ vsce package
$ code --install-extension fonttools-0.3.0.vsix

Copyright

© 2021-2023 by Jens Kutilek.