Thanks to the contributions of @arialcrime, @gferreira and @cjdunn who have helped word-o-mat work under RoboFont 3!
Looking for words that contain ‘q’ but not ‘u’? Or French words that use an ‘a’, a ‘g’, at least one ascender, and one diagonal, but only the ones you’ve marked green? Or words in which to see a specific letter combination, like ‘fk’ or ‘Yc’? This is the sort of thing that word-o-mat can help you with. It's an extension for RoboFont that generates words for use in type sketching, spacing, testing etc.
Version 2.2.6 should be py3 compatible -- thanks to Frederik Berlaen and Gustavo Ferreira!
New in major version 2.2:
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GREP pattern matching: As an alternative to specifying lists of required letters (which is still there and unchanged), word-o-mat now also supports pattern matching with regular expressions for more fine-grained control. (Please make sure your regex does not contradict parameters set in the “Basic settings” panel, as the script does not [yet] cleverly check for such things.)
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Use mark color to constrain character set (experimental): Hit the color swatch and select a mark color used in your font (in the color interface, you can find them under Swatches > “RoboFont mark colors”). Word-o-mat will then only use glyphs marked precisely that color. Feedback on this functionality is welcome.
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Language support: Additional option to get words in any available language (mind that this will be slower). Also new wordlists for Latin, Polish, Icelandic, Vietnamese syllables (the latter is a rather short list, but I thought it may still be useful to include). Implemented correct capitalization of German ß to SS.
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Interface cleanups, improved error handling, bugfixes. I also updated the Help, in case anyone is looking at that :)
Extended Language Support:
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word-o-mat is UTF-8 compliant, so you can also use it for languages other than English (I’ve only tested it for Latin-based languages for now). This uses the Unicode info of the glyphs, so make sure you have your codepoints assigned properly.
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Ships with built-in word lists for: English, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Spanish. Word lists usually contain between 5.000 and 30.000 words each and are derived from various open/CC licensed sources; please check the individual files for details. Some of these word lists still contain errors and stray words from other languages; the ones italicized above have been manually checked and fixed: German & Dutch (Nina Stössinger), Norwegian (Sindre Bremnes of Monokrom), French (La Police Type Foundry with David Hodgetts), Catalan (Joancarles Casasín), Italian (Roberto Arista), and Latin which was greatly expanded/improved by Tobias Frere-Jones. Thanks! – You can also use custom wordlists. (For best results use UTF-8 encoding.)
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Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Mongolian, Russian, Serbian, Tajik, Ukrainian and Greek added and Vietnamese updated by Wei Huang based on Leipzig Corpora Collection.
If you find any bugs or have suggestions for future development, please get in touch, or fix them yourself :)