2.5b: Transformation panel: vertical mirror/flip ignores transform origin with auto alignment

Glyphs
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In a glyph that has a component of another glyph in it, attempting to use the vertical mirror/flip in the Transformation palette panel, the transformation origin is ignored and seems to act as if the origin was set to half cap height. If “Disable Automatic Alignment” is set, then the transforms seem to work (at least testing the metrics origin setting).

This can also be seen going from a .glyphs file saved in 2.4.2 to 2.5b, the transform changes, e.g.,

-transform = "{1, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0}";
+transform = "{1, 0, 0, -1, 0, 750}";

Second line is the change after saving in 2.5b (1066).

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Could you send me a .glyphs file?

This has to do with the auto layout moving the component.

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Test file sent to support.

Further testing showed that before 2.5b auto layout may have been different between letter and non-letter glyphs. In pre-2.5b, the transform origin would be ignored (assumed to be half Cap height) for auto-aligned components and using the vertical flip/mirror transform in, e.g., letter glyphs, but not in, say, /testglyph.