Fix minor bug in fontbuild where certain glyphs composed of multiple shapes would not be expanded & flattened

misc/pylib/fontbuild/Build.pyx

@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ class FontProject:
 
         self.builddir = "out"
         self.decompose = self.config.get("glyphs","decompose").split()
-        self.predecompose = self.config.get("glyphs","predecompose").split()
+        self.predecompose = set(self.config.get("glyphs","predecompose").split())
+        self.predecompose_auto = 1  # unless 0, automatically populate predecompose
         self.lessItalic = set(self.config.get("glyphs","lessitalic").split())
         self.deleteList = set(self.config.get("glyphs","delete").split())
         self.noItalic = set(self.config.get("glyphs","noitalic").split())
@@ -128,6 +129,13 @@ class FontProject:
                 for gname in swapList:
                     print gname
                     swapContours(f, gname.replace(swap,""), gname)
+        
+        if self.predecompose_auto == 1:
+            self.predecompose_auto = 2
+            for g in self.basefont:
+                if len(g.components) > 0:
+                    self.predecompose.add(g.name)
+
         for gname in self.predecompose:
             if f.has_key(gname):
                 decomposeGlyph(f, f[gname])
@@ -273,6 +281,8 @@ def generateGlyphs(f, glyphNames, glyphList={}):
 def cleanCurves(f):
     log(">> Removing overlaps")
     for g in f:
+        # if len(g.components) > 0:
+        #     decomposeGlyph(f, g)
         removeGlyphOverlap(g)
 
     # log(">> Mitring sharp corners")
@@ -293,10 +303,11 @@ def deleteGlyphs(f, deleteList):
 def removeGlyphOverlap(glyph):
     """Remove overlaps in contours from a glyph."""
     #TODO(jamesgk) verify overlaps exist first, as per library's recommendation
-    manager = BooleanOperationManager()
     contours = glyph.contours
-    glyph.clearContours()
-    manager.union(contours, glyph.getPointPen())
+    if len(contours) > 1:
+        manager = BooleanOperationManager()
+        glyph.clearContours()
+        manager.union(contours, glyph.getPointPen())
 
 
 def saveOTF(font, destFile, glyphOrder, truetype=False):

src/fontbuild.cfg

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ decompose: integral product florin Tbar tbar Hbar hbar Eng eng notequal mu aster
 	iota lambda ohorn omega phi psi rho sigma sigma1 tau theta uhorn upsilon xi zeta
 	Aogonek aogonek Eogonek eogonek Uogonek uogonek uni052F Hdesc hdesc Ndesc ndesc
 	nbspace uni202F uni205F erev uni2050
-predecompose: uni04B4 uni04B5 dcroat uni040F uni045F uni0490 uni0491 OE oe Oslash oslash
+predecompose: uni04B4 uni04B5 dcroat uni040F uni045F uni0490 uni0491
+	OE oe Oslash oslash
 	uni04A6 uni04A7 uni0492 uni0493 uni04BC uni04BD gamma Ohorn ohorn Uhorn uhorn
 	uni0472 uni0473 pi uni046C uni046D gravesubnosp acutesubnosp tackleftsubnosp
 	tackrightsubnosp ringlefthalfsubnosp tackupsubnosp tackdownsubnosp plussubnosp