Generating diacritical versions of ligatures

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Hello,

Is there a way to automatise creation of ligatures?
I’m working on a typeface with many dlig’s and I need to create all kind of f.e Aacute_Z; Aogonek_Z etc
Thanks

edit.

Not sure if what I wrote is clear to what I mean.
I have the ligature A_Z and I need to use it as component to create Aacute_Z etc.

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There is a script for that in my GitHub repo called Components > Diacritic Ligature Maker which gives you all possible combinations, given you set anchors top_1, top_2 etc. appropriately.

But you will need, like, hundreds or thousands of ligatures. Consider contextual alternates rather than ligatures wherever possible.

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Great, thank you.

Is this influencing efficiency of the font? Or is it rather a question of support?

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Y0u don’t need precomposed ligatures if you have a halfway decent app (Indesign is only half decent in this regard). Then you would decompose all accented letters into base+combining accent. Then add a liga2Mark feature (build automatically if you have top_1/2/3 anchors) and add lookupflag IgnoreMarks; to the liga feature. The problem in Indesign in that you need to activate the World Ready composer to make it work.

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Hi, I’m trying to use your script and having this error, do you know what’s wrong?

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Creating variations for T_E.dlig:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Diacritic Ligature Maker.py", line 100, in <module>
    listOfLigatures = process( thisGlyphName )
  File "Diacritic Ligature Maker.py", line 75, in process
    diacriticLetterLists = [ [n]+namesOfGlyphsContainingThisComponent(n) for n in namesOfLigatureLetters ]
  File "Diacritic Ligature Maker.py", line 32, in namesOfGlyphsContainingThisComponent
    listOfGlyphs = selectTool._glyphsContainingComponentWithName_font_masterID_( componentName, thisFont, thisFontMasterID )
AttributeError: 'GSToolSelect' object has no attribute '_glyphsContainingComponentWithName_font_masterID_'
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I’ll have a look tomorrow. But please open an issue on the GitHub repository. It is hard for me to follow bugreports here.

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The method _glyphsContainingComponentWithName_font_masterID_ is on the font object, not at the tool.

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SORRY! I had an older version of the script, I re-downloaded and worked.

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