Anchors not attaching

Glyphs
1

I have a base glyph with an anchor called gaf and a mark glyph with an anchor called _gaf, and I would expect the mark to attach to the base. It works in fontmake, but not in Glyphs export.

What seems to be happening is that the mark attachment code is generated, but it has a mark filtering set which does not include the mark glyph. This seems to be related to the use of contextual anchors; although this particular mark attachment does not use a contextual anchor (it’s just a normal anchor attachment), other contextual anchors use a mark filtering set, and that particular set is wrongly being applied to this particular attachment.

This is with Glyphs 3.2 (3195).

2

Can you send me that file?

3

The problem was not the mark filtering per se but the missing scoping in fea. The lookup before the @mark_gaf rules has a markfilter but then we need a “lookupflag 0”. I added that.

4

Thank you!