Fonttools

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- [varLib.models] Use a simpler model that generates narrower "tents" (regions, master
supports) whenever possible: specifically when any two axes that actively "cooperate"
(have masters at non-zero positions for both axes) have a complete set of intermediates.
The simpler algorithm produces fewer overlapping regions and behaves better with
respect to rounding at the peak positions than the generic solver, always matching
intermediate masters exactly, instead of maximally 0.5 units off. This may be useful
when 100% metrics compatibility is desired (2218, 2717).
- [feaLib] Remove warning when about ``GDEF`` not being built when explicitly not
requested; don't build one unconditonally even when not requested (2744, also works
around 2747).
- [ttFont] ``TTFont.getGlyphSet`` method now supports selecting a location that
represents an instance of a variable font (supports both user-scale and normalized
axes coordinates via the ``normalized=False`` parameter). Currently this only works
for TrueType-flavored variable fonts (2738).

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- [otData/otConverters] Added support for 'biased' PaintSweepGradient start/end angles
to match latest COLRv1 spec (2743).
- [varLib.instancer] Fixed bug in ``_instantiateFeatureVariations`` when at the same
time pinning one axis and restricting the range of a subsequent axis; the wrong axis
tag was being used in the latter step (as the records' axisIdx was updated in the
preceding step but looked up using the old axes order in the following step) (2733,
2734).
- [mtiLib] Pad script tags with space when less than 4 char long (1727).
- [merge] Use ``'.'`` instead of ``''`` in duplicate glyph names (2742).
- [gvar] Added support for lazily loading glyph variations (2741).
- [varLib] In ``build_many``, we forgot to pass on ``colr_layer_reuse`` parameter to
the ``build`` method (2730).
- [svgPathPen] Add a main that prints SVG for input text (6df779fd).
- [cffLib.width] Fixed off-by-one in optimized values; previous code didn't match the
code block above it (2963fa50).
- [varLib.interpolatable] Support reading .designspace and .glyphs files (via optional
``glyphsLib``).
- Compile some modules with Cython when available and building/installing fonttools
from source: ``varLib.iup`` (35% faster), ``pens.momentsPen`` (makes
``varLib.interpolatable`` 3x faster).
- [feaLib] Allow features to be built for VF without also building a GDEF table (e.g.
only build GSUB); warn when GDEF would be needed but isn't requested (2705, 2694).
- [otBase] Fixed ``AttributeError`` when uharfbuzz < 0.23.0 and 'repack' method is
missing (32aa8eaf). Use new ``uharfbuzz.repack_with_tag`` when available (since
uharfbuzz>=0.30.0), enables table-specific optimizations to be performed during
repacking (2724).
- [statisticsPen] By default report all glyphs (4139d891). Avoid division-by-zero
(52b28f90).
- [feaLib] Added missing required argument to FeatureLibError exception (2693)
- [varLib.merge] Fixed error during error reporting (2689). Fixed undefined
``NotANone`` variable (2714).

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- Fixed typo in varLib/merger.py that causes NameError merging COLR glyphs
containing more than 255 layers (2685).

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- [designspaceLib] Don't make up bad PS names when no STAT data (2684)

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- [varStore/subset] fixed KeyError exception to do with NO_VARIATION_INDEX while
subsetting varidxes in GPOS/GDEF (a08140d).

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- [instancer] When optimizing HVAR/VVAR VarStore, use_NO_VARIATION_INDEX=False to avoid
including NO_VARIATION_INDEX in AdvWidthMap, RsbMap, LsbMap mappings, which would
push the VarIdx width to maximum (4bytes), which is not desirable. This also fixes
a hard crash when attempting to subset a varfont after it had been partially instanced
with use_NO_VARIATION_INDEX=True.