Cursive connections and variable fonts

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Shouldn’t Glyphs be emitting ItemVariationStore records for cursive connections? I just realised that my variable font doesn’t connect properly at heavy weights, and looking at the GPOS table, it’s not really surprising why not - it uses the anchors from the default master even when the glyphs are varied.

Heavy master is correct:

Screenshot 2021-03-02 at 13.17.13
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Exported VF doesn’t connect:

Screenshot 2021-03-02 at 13.17.52
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I’ll have a look.

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In fact, it’s not just cursive connections. Anchor positioning isn’t varying at all:
FontGoggles

Nothing special happening in the glyphs file: Alfar.glyphs (13.3 KB)

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The mark positioning should work. But the cursive variation was indeed missing. Fixed it.