Context Manager is a Glyphs 3 Plugin which is intended to help and speed up your workflow when you are looking for a word/string to proof a specific glyph. It allow user to manage contextual words/strings for each glyph and to create contextual group.
This plugin comes with a database for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek letters. This database was built using an algorithm that analysed dictionaries of different languages to establish a list of the most effective words to prove each letter.
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From Glyphs App go to Window > Plugin Manager, search Context Manager, install it and restart Glyphs.
Context Manager add two items in your Edit menu:
Context Manager: An interface to create/edit plugin settings.Set Context…: A script that randomly selects content from your context library and filter settings.
I highly recommend to assign a shortcut to Set Context… to trigger it more easily.
For that go in Glyphs > Preferences, in Shortcuts section, search Set Context…, and record a shortcut here.
- Each glyph can be assigned Context Classes, Context Words and Context String.
- Filters are used to choose which Context source are enable or disable.
- When you select a glyph, running
Set Context…will pick randomly a Context between activated filters, and use it in your current tab.
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Filters allow user to choose which context to use when Edit > Find Context is triggered.
(ex : if Class and Words are checked, it will pick randomly a word from Glyph Classes or Glyph Words)
Class: add content fromGlyph ClassesWord: add content fromGlyph WordsString: add content fromGlyph StringsSmart: add content based on glyphs from classes displayed inGlyph ClassesSpacing: add stringHxHxOxOxnxnxoxo, where "x" is your selected glyph.
Start With: filter word that start with your selected glyphInclude: filter word that contain but not start with your selected glyph
Uppercase: change case to "Uppercase" (except selected glyph)Lowercase: change case to "Lowercase" (except selected glyph)
Show for selected glyph, all Context Class which contain this glyph.
(ex : if you set Lowercase – Ascender and Lowercase – Round both with letter b inside, these classes will be displayed here)
List all your saved words of your selected glyph.
You can add/remove/edit word. (
List all your saved strings of your selected glyph.
You can add/remove/edit strings. (
This is your Context Classe library. It list all your Context Class saved.
Context Classe are used to share same contents between different glyphs.
Instead of adding
"chocolate"word inGlyph Wordsfor letterso,cande, you can create aContext Class,
with these 3 letters, and add"chocolate"inClass Strings
To create a class, press the (+) button and type a Class name.
To delete a class, select it and press (-) button.
You can also rename an existing class by double clicking on it.
After selecting a Context Class, it show all glyph present in this class.
All glyph in a classe share the same content.
To add glyphs, select them in Font View and press (+) button. To delete glyphs, selected them and press (-) button or DEL key.-
Text entry control, where you can add strings that contain glyph from selected Context Class.
At first start, Context Manager will create a JSON file Context Manager.json store here :
~/Library/Application Support/Glyphs 3/info/ContextManager.json
This file can be edited directly from the Context Manager UI or by being open with a text editor like Sublime Text or VSCode. To share your Context Manager settings, you just have to share this file and placed it here:
~/Library/Application Support/Glyphs 3/info
Some additionnal features are accesible via bottom right action button.
Reset Context Manager settings: Reset your actual settings.Import Context Manager settings: Replace your actual settings by another setting file.Merge Context Manager settings with another file: Import data from another setting file in your actual settings.