Custom sidebar entry with only one subgroup

1

Hi,

Just tried to make a custom sidebar entry. I did everything what is in the tutorial, copied the code from Groups.plist file, but got only one subgroup in each entry.

Glyphs Version 2.1.1 (782)

Thx.

2

can you post/send the code content of your custom sidebar file?

3

I copied the code without any changes from the tutorial.

    {
    categories = (
        {
            name = "Compatibility";
            icon = compatibilityTemplate;
            subGroup = (
                {
                    name = "Web";
                    coverage = (
                        .notdef,
                        hyphen,
                        space
                    );
                }
            );
            subGroup = (
                {
                    name = "Windows";
                    coverage = (
                        nbspace,
                        softhyphen
                    );
                }
            );
        },
    );
    languages = (
        {
            name = "Esperanto";
            icon = EsperantoTemplate;
            script = esperanto;
            subGroup = (
                {
                    name = "Letters";
                    coverage = (
                        Ccircumflex,
                        ccircumflex,
                        Gcircumflex,
                        gcircumflex,
                        Hcircumflex,
                        hcircumflex,
                        Jcircumflex,
                        jcircumflex,
                        Scircumflex,
                        scircumflex,
                        Ubreve,
                        ubreve
                    );
                }
            );
            subGroup = (
                {
                    name = "Marks";
                    coverage = (
                        circumflexcomb,
                        brevecomb
                    );
                }
            );
        },
    );
}
4

I just confirmed this. Only the last subGroup of each category/language is displayed. Also, if I select the parent category/language, nothing is displayed on the main glyph list on the right.

5

Same problem for me.

6

There is a mistake in the file. You can’t have two subgroups, but multiple entries.

 {
    categories = (
        {
            name = "Compatibility";
            icon = compatibilityTemplate;
            subGroup = (
                {
                    name = "Web";
                    coverage = (
                        .notdef,
                        hyphen,
                        space
                    );
                },
                {
                    name = "Windows";
                    coverage = (
                        nbspace,
                        softhyphen
                    );
                }
            );
        },
    );
    languages = (
        {
            name = "Esperanto";
            icon = EsperantoTemplate;
            script = esperanto;
            subGroup = (
                {
                    name = "Letters";
                    coverage = (
                        Ccircumflex,
                        ccircumflex,
                        Gcircumflex,
                        gcircumflex,
                        Hcircumflex,
                        hcircumflex,
                        Jcircumflex,
                        jcircumflex,
                        Scircumflex,
                        scircumflex,
                        Ubreve,
                        ubreve
                    );
                },
                {
                    name = "Marks";
                    coverage = (
                        circumflexcomb,
                        brevecomb
                    );
                }
            );
        },
    );
}

Edit: fixed subgroups.

7

Makes sense. On your example above, there are 2 subgroups in the categories, but I understand how it works now. Thanks!

8

Fixed in the tutorial.