Formulas for sidebearings not updating in latest beta

Glyphs
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I’m finding that Update Metrics is not working in the latest beta (1.3.24 (517)) in certain cases.
This seems to be happening when the sidebearing is set to something like
"= e.sc"
(I think I entered it just as “e.sc” but maybe it got converted to that format somewhere along the way?)
Removing the equals sign and space restores the update metrics functionality.

2

This is the debris of a much bigger bug that was fixed in 515. Please remove the “/equal/space”.

3

I’m seeing some redundant sidebearing formulas recently now in Glyphs 2 (e.g., “=o” instead of just “o”, and even “==o” here and there). Not sure if this a reappearance of this older bug in G2, or my file just has some residual wonkiness from before.

4

Georg, could you please confirm:

  • if sb are exactly the same, there is no need for = sign before (e.g. e.sc)
  • if formulated (e.g. H+10, or |n) there have to be equal sign before formula

And ad this somewhere in the manual

5
Yes, this is right. And in the latest beta of G2, you can add two equal signs to only affect the current layer (helpful for keys with calculations).
6
Smart.
7
Page 63.
8
Touché!

(I remember we discuss this in Amsterdam)