Uses Python and lxml to create a less file with classes from an SVG font file

svg2less.py

# Install the library
# easy_install lxml

from lxml import etree

filename = "fonts/icons.svg"
tree = etree.parse(open(filename, 'r'))

lessPreStyle = """
@font_family_1: 'icon-font';

[class^="icon-"] {
	font-family: @font_family_1 !important;
	speak: none;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-variant: normal;
	text-transform: none;
	line-height: 1;
	-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
	-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}
[class*=" icon-"] {
	font-family: @font_family_1 !important;
	speak: none;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-variant: normal;
	text-transform: none;
	line-height: 1;
	-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
	-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

"""
font = tree.getroot()[1][0]

for glyph in font.iter('{http://www.w3.org/2000/svg}glyph'):
	if 'glyph-name' in glyph.keys():
        	lessPreStyle += '''\
			.icon-{name} {{
				&:before {{
					content: {unicode};
				}}
			}}
			'''.format(name=glyph.attrib['glyph-name'], unicode=repr(glyph.attrib['unicode']).replace('\\u', '\\'))

file = open("icons.less", "w")
file.write(lessPreStyle)