Glyph positioning: Where to put it?

Glyphs
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Hi! I added inferior and superior numbers to my font. These numbers have smaller spacing than normal sized numbers or capital letters.

What I want to achieve: If I place an inferior number next to a capital letter, the distance between the capital letter and the inferior number should be expanded. I would like to solve this by using pos to increase the spacing between capital letters and inferior numbers:

pos @Uppercase 8 @Inferior;

This works as a “calt” and also as a “kern” feature (surprisingly not in “case” as described in the “Positioning with number values” tutorial). Does it matter where I put this? Or is there a special place for it or a completely different solution?

Thank you!

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That should go to the kern feature. The case feature is usually not activated (and it is meant to vertically position e.g. parenthesis to better match all cap settings).

3

Thank you very much for the quick answer, Georg.

Another question: How do I format code lines in this forum so that they don’t look like normal text? I’ve seen this in other forum posts :slight_smile:

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In the editor, select the code and then choose the gear button :gear: → Preformatted text.

5

There is no preformatted text under the gear button. Only Hide details and build poll.

Hmmm... ‹/› makes this...

But that’s not the right way, is it?

6

You did the right thing. I responded from my phone, so maybe the </> Preformatted text option is not hidden in the gear menu on wider screens.

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OK, Cool! Thank you, Florian!