A script to nuke selected glyphs from the Current Font in RoboFont

remove-selected-glyphs-from-currentfont.py

"""
    Removes currently selected glyphs from current font.
    
    Also removes these glyphs from groups, kerning, and components.
    
    Includes template glyphs in selection and removal.
"""

f = CurrentFont()

# copy space-separated glyph names here
glyphsToRemove = list(f.templateSelectedGlyphNames)

# FONT KEYs -----------------------------------------------

# clean up the rest of the data
for glyphName in glyphsToRemove:
    #print(glyphName)
    # remove from keys
    #if glyphName in f:
    if glyphName in f.keys():
        del f[glyphName]
    else:
        continue

# LAYERS --------------------------------------------------

for layerName in f.layerOrder:
    layer = f.getLayer(layerName)
    for glyphToRemove in glyphsToRemove:
        if glyphToRemove in layer:
            del layer[glyphToRemove]


# GLYPH ORDER ---------------------------------------------

# saving template glyph order
templateGlyphs = f.templateGlyphOrder

glyphOrder = f.glyphOrder

for glyphName in glyphsToRemove:
    if glyphName in glyphOrder:
        glyphOrder.remove(glyphName)
    if glyphName in templateGlyphs:
        templateGlyphs.remove(glyphName) 

f.glyphOrder = glyphOrder

# restoring template glyphs
f.templateGlyphOrder = templateGlyphs

# KERNING -----------------------------------------------------------

for glyphName in glyphsToRemove:
    # iterate over all kerning pairs in the font
    for kerningPair in f.kerning.keys():

        # if glyph is in the kerning pair, remove it
        if glyphName in kerningPair:
            del f.kerning[kerningPair]

# COMPONENTS -------------------------------------------------------

# iterate over all glyphs in the font
for glyph in f:

    # skip glyphs which components
    if not glyph.components:
        continue

    # iterate over all components in glyph
    for component in glyph.components:

        # if the base glyph is the glyph to be removed
        if component.baseGlyph in glyphsToRemove:
            # delete the component
            glyph.removeComponent(component)

# clearing this list so it's not saved...
glyphsToRemove = []