Not possible at the moment. You could write your own Anchor Selector tool that would do that (at the expense of ignoring all other glyph content).
@mekkablue Is it possible to directly add tools (with an icon to click in the UI), or just via script?
Yes, with a plug-in. There are templates and code samples in the GlyphsSDK:
Do you have coding experience?
Yes, Iâm developing webapps with JavaScript.
This is very useful. Iâll have a look at it.
Btw: I just noticed that the autogenerated kerning feature has âlookupflag IgnoreMarksâ by default. Is there a way to disable this? I need kerning for marks, too.
Between letters you need that flag. For mark positioning, consider the mark and mkmk features or a lookup with lookupflag 0.
My font is for a conlang that does not use any of the normal diacritics. When I remove the IgnoreMarks flag from the kerning in features.fea and recompile, everything works.
But this way I cannot use autogenerated kerning and have to use the kern feature manually.
I just tried to use the kern feature manually, but it still autogenerates kern_DFLT and kern_latin. When I use the same lookup names in the manual listing, I get an error message that these lookup names already exist.
I have an Idea:
If a user creates a feature manually he could click a button to generate a small template structure that represents the autogenerated code. Like this example in the kern feature:
Here the user could decide to add manual code before or after it.
And even inside the autogenerated lookups to remove or add to the lookup flags for example.
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This is an interesting suggestions. I see how it could work.
I just stumbled over this again.
Why is the ignore mark flag a problem? Maybe you glyph info settings are wrong?
I tried to directly edit the features.fea file but I get an error message: âLookup type different from previous rules in this lookup blockâ.
Are you aware that you cannot put contextual and non-contextual rules within the same lookup? All rules within a single lookup must be of the same type.
You can add context to anchors now. Prefix the anchor name with a * and youâll get a text field in the right sidebar. There you add the context and use an * for the current glyph.