Creating initial and terminal forms for accented characters automatically

Glyphs
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Hi,
This may be a basic questions but i’m trying to make Glyphs to create initial and terminal forms for accented characters automatically.
To start with I’ve created a line in the GlyphData.xml custom file

But it doesn’t seem to work at all. :-/

Any help very much appreciated.

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I think you don’t need to modify the glyphData to do the. if you add an a.fina and generate aacute.fina, it should pick up the right components.

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the reason i’m asking and tried adding the line to the glyphdata.xml is that it doesn’t want to pick up the right components :-/

i create a new glyph, rename it to aacute.fina and it’s empty. When I add a.fina component and acute component to it manualy - the glyph looks fine and i do not have to decompose it or something to make it look right. but i need to do the same for all accented characters and it’s a nightmare meaning that it’s doable but very much time consuming…

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well, now it works :slight_smile:
miracle!

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If you use the “Generate Glyph” command and paste in all the names at once it will pick up the right components.

Or, select all accented characters cmd+D. Then you get names like aacute.001. Select all and Find and Replace ‘.001’ with ‘.fina’. Then run Layer > Make Component Glyph. That sound more complicated as it is.