{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/438","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/fontmake","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/438/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/438/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/438/events","html_url":"https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/438","id":328488567,"node_id":"MDU6SXNzdWUzMjg0ODg1Njc=","number":438,"title":"Support italicAngle Glyphs custom parameters ","user":{"login":"m4rc1e","id":7525512,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjc1MjU1MTI=","avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/7525512?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/m4rc1e","html_url":"https://github.com/m4rc1e","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m4rc1e/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m4rc1e/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m4rc1e/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m4rc1e/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m4rc1e/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m4rc1e/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m4rc1e/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m4rc1e/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/m4rc1e/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2018-06-01T11:46:31Z","updated_at":"2018-06-01T11:55:55Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"CONTRIBUTOR","body":"[Barlow](https://github.com/jpt/barlow) uses the italicAngle instance customParameter to make faux italics\r\n\r\n![screen shot 2018-06-01 at 12 42 06](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7525512/40839191-52940e40-6599-11e8-904f-1c5ab987881a.png)\r\n\r\nThis will be very difficult to implement.\r\n\r\n\r\nApologies for dropping so many issues recently, I totally understand you're busy. I'm issuing them so I have future references for why weren't able to build certain families with fontmake."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/comments/393858529","html_url":"https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/438#issuecomment-393858529","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/fontmake/issues/438","id":393858529,"node_id":"MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM5Mzg1ODUyOQ==","user":{"login":"anthrotype","id":6939968,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjY5Mzk5Njg=","avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/6939968?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/anthrotype","html_url":"https://github.com/anthrotype","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/anthrotype/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/anthrotype/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/anthrotype/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/anthrotype/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/anthrotype/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/anthrotype/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/anthrotype/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/anthrotype/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/anthrotype/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-06-01T11:55:55Z","updated_at":"2018-06-01T11:55:55Z","author_association":"MEMBER","body":"No problem, please keep filing them :)\r\n\r\nI think it's not just the ItalicAngle parameter, but it's the Transformations filter that actually does the slanting.\r\nI'm afraid the SlantCorrection option is not implemented yet in the Transformations filter in ufo2ft:\r\nhttps://github.com/googlei18n/ufo2ft/blob/5309f00e385c200cf9b9267fca9eec3971f08e10/Lib/ufo2ft/filters/transformations.py#L102 "}}
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