Cannot create legacy marks (as comb marks are already in)

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Hi,

I am facing a strange issue. I already have in my file all the combining marks and I see myself unable to implement some of the legacy marks. Those one: grave dieresis acute cedilla circumflex dotaccent ring tilde. How could I get around this issue?

Thank you
Amélie

ps. I am running Version 2.2.2 (824) on Mac.

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In what way is it not possible? What happens when you add a legacy mark?

There is a section called Legacy Marks in this Tutorial:
https://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/diacritics/

Does this help?

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When I create the legacy marks, they just dont appear. Second option, I have tried is to force renaming the comb marks into legacy; unsuccessful too.

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That is the message I receive when I ask to create legacy marks.

That makes little sense to me. Does it to you?

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What is you setting in File > Font Info > Other Settings > Custom Names? Your comb marks seem to carry the legacy Unicodes. Turn off custom names or update glyph info via the Glyph menu.

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Thanks for the Font Info tip… but that doesn’t work :confused: The custom names was already unchecked.
And what is not making sense at all is that the comb marks have their correct unicode values in place. So, the message I posted earlier is wrong saying that the font contained glyphs with the same unicode… or I am missing something.

Here is an extract of my the Glyph Data I am using:


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<glyph unicode="0301" name="acutecomb" category="Mark" subCategory="Nonspacing" production="acute" altNames="acute" description="COMBINING ACUTE" anchors="_top, top" />
<glyph unicode="0300" name="gravecomb" category="Mark" subCategory="Nonspacing" production="grave" altNames="grave" description="COMBINING GRAVE" anchors="_top, top" />
<glyph unicode="0327" name="cedillacomb" category="Mark" subCategory="Nonspacing" production="cedilla" altNames="cedilla" description="COMBINING CEDILLA" anchors="_bottom, bottom" />
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you should not use acute, grave and so on as production names for your combining marks. You should remove the lines from your glyphData and it will work.