I can’t figure this out. I have a bunch of mark glyphs that are made of components, like you see here: ကိံ င်္ကီ ကဲံ. I thought I could add #exit and #entry anchors on the mark glyphs so that the ligatures snap the components into the right positions when they find anchors that match. But auto-alignment doesn’t have any effect, the right hand component still floats free. I tried all different anchor names but it appears nothing will get mark components to snap together.
I tried this with latin marks and it works fine:
Mask with exit:entry.glyphs (1.5 KB)
Can you send me the file?
Thanks for taking a look, just sent it 
I have similar problems. One of the issues is that Glyphs doesn’t update the display one you have added these anchors. You have to close the file and re-open it, then they show up , are selectable in the info panel, and sometimes actually works. Then there are times when they don’t work, that happens when nested components are involved, but inconsistently.
It has been happening on cutting edge from about 3235 I think. I don’t know if it is consistently reproducible, but it happens often. In my case it was in adding new ^entry and ^exit anchors to some glyphs to build some ligatures.
Can you try the latest cutting edge version, I think I finally fixed it.
It’s working beautifully now for me, thank you!
um sorry, hate to say it but I don’t think it’s working when there are three marks (e.g င်္ကိံ). The second and third components are both attaching to the #exit anchor of the first mark
EDIT Yikes sorry it does work, I’d misnamed #exit without the hash
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