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Scripts and FontLab macros on GitHub
GitHub is a well-known among programmers, but perhaps it still needs some introduction to the design community. It is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. In simpler terms, GitHub is a place where I can share the software I wrote and you can download it easily from there. Most of it for free. And you can also keep an eye on the development or help me.
Most of the stuff under my GitHub profile will probably relate to FontLab and font development somehow. I already moved the free stuff from the former Tools section on this web. That is the Rename glyphs macro which helps to batch-change glyph names in your font. Unlike other tools it changes the names everywhere in FontLab, that is also in the Classes panel and OpenType panel (i.e. in the features as well as in the classes). Using this script you can keep the friendly names of your glyphs to the very end of the font development. Second piece of work is buildInstaller script, a tool for FontLab macro developers allowing them to build installers for their macros. Not very useful to designers, but perhaps some type programmers will find it handy. All of the codes and macros are offered without any warranty, but with a hope you will find them useful.