Copying kerning values from existing characters to new characters

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Hello! I’ve read the articles and forum discussion on kerning and I know that the best way to sync kerning values among variants of a particular character is to use kerning groups. So if I have R and Racute in my font, I can give them the same kerning group and use the lock and their values will be synced.

But I’m working on adding new glyphs to an old font (adding a few diacritics that I hadn’t included before) and I want to copy the values from, let’s say, R and Racute to Rgrave (just making things up here). But if I add the new Rgrave character and then assign it to the R kerning group, it doesn’t inherit the kerning values.

Is there a way to force it to? Or a way to copy the values from R to Rgrave? I really don’t want to go through and add kerning values on by one!

Thanks,
Julie

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I guess another way to ask the same or a similar question is what is the best thing to do when you didn’t start out with kerning classes set for a particular character and then you realize you want that character to have all the same kerning values as another character that is already kerned?

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You still should use kerning classes.
You need to add the kerning groups to all "R"s. And close the lock on all of them. Then it should work.