Retain side bearings of base glyph when creating diacritic (component)

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April 3, 2017 at 17:17 #6311

josh
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I’m creating diacritics by following the process of establishing anchor for base glyph and diacritc > Add Glyphs > e.g. agrave=a+grave@top

However in some instances the side bearings of the base glyph (let’s say u) do not match the side bearings of uogonek.

Does anyone know how to create diacritics using components as mentioned above so that side bearings match base glyph?

April 5, 2017 at 07:57 #6312

frederik
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he Josh

could you provide a real example?
it should take the metrics of the first component, in your example agrave=a+grave@top the agrave should have the same metrics as a

thanks

April 7, 2017 at 19:56 #6314

josh
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hi Frederik,

the agrave would be an example.

My a sidebearing L=51, R=69 and when composed agrave is L=51, R=60

It appears to be consistently subtracting different amounts of the right side bearing on component glyphs only, if that helps?

Is there is a way to output the process to a text file that could be inspected to see what’s happening? apologies for minimal knowledge in helping troubleshoot this.

Thanks.
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