Automatic Alignment for quoteleft and quoteright?

#1

I have Automatic Alignment enabled in preferences, but it doesn’t appear to work for quoteleft and quoteright glyphs. It also fails for a number of others including: exclam, question, period, bracketleft and bracketright, etc.

EDIT: according to the handbook, “Non-letters are not automatically aligned.” Is there a way to force “non-letters” to automatically align?

Thanks

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#2

Can you please file a feature request at http://bugreport.glyphsapp.com?

#3

Sure thing Georg!

#4

I fixed it. Now you can enable alignment for all glyphs.

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#5

Awesome! Is this in the cutting edge version?

#6

In the upcoming cutting edge version.

#7

Enable Automatic alignment , restricts horizontal shifts but enables vertical ones for Non-letters; Shouldn’t it lock both!?
In that regard, I wonder if there is a way to reset components to their original position (instead of relying on the visual indicator (¬) for positioning)

#8

What exactly are you trying to do? Which glyph with which components are you trying to auto-align?

#9

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#10

The problem it that for none letters, the vertical position is not as easy to calculate. It needs to know if flipped at the cap-height or x-height.

#11

Convincing ,
Thanks Georg

#12

What if non-letters would flip around their own center or keep the same origin.y (to avoid rounding errors)?

#13

That would move all components if you change the bonding box. And that can be unexpected.

#14

Maybe there could be added an option to choose the auto alignment origin?

#15

There already is the “*origin” anchor. But that doesn’t help with the rotation.

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