Feature request: Special version of base glyph for use with accents

[CatharsisFonts (Christian Thalmann)]

My current project contains a lot of capitals with a vertical slash, as shown:

That slash is going to interfere with accents, so I’d want to use a variant with a retracted slash for all accented derivatives. That’s a ton of manual work.

It would be great if I could name the retracted version /C.topAccent or something so that Glyphs would automatically use that for building, say, /Cacute and the like. Even better if it also worked for suffixed glyphs, i.e., if /Cacute.ss04 were built from /C.ss04.topAccent if available.

Cheers!

[mattymatt (Matthew Smith)]

If you’re looking for ways to alleviate manual pasting/adjusting, I have a few suggestions.

1. • Generate all of your C top accent variants (Cacute, Ccaron, etc.) with your default C.
   • Run Rainer’s Replace Components script on those glyphs to replace the C with your modified version.
     • https://github.com/mekkablue/Glyphs-Scripts/blob/master/Components/Replace%20Components.py

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2. • Use recipe’s to generate your accent characters
     • https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/recipes
     • For example, C.topAccent+acutecomb=Cacute

Of course these options aren’t as simple as pushing a single button, but they can definitely save you a ton of manual work.

[CatharsisFonts (Christian Thalmann)]

Thanks Matt, that Replace Components script sounds like a good fallback solution!