Glyphs with same name preventing variable export

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Hi Forum,

I’m trying to export a family and it gives me this error:
The font contains glyphs with the same name: oe.varAlt01, adieresis.varAlt01, edieresis.varAlt01, odieresis.varAlt01, cdotaccent.varAlt01, edotaccent.varAlt01, gdotaccent.varAlt01, i.varAlt01, j.varAlt01, zdotaccent.varAlt01, aring.varAlt01

I can’t localize these characters, are they generated by the variable export? How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance for your time

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Yes. These are the bracket layers. Which exact version of Glyphs are you using?

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Thanks for the reply! I’m on the latest one. I’ve traced back the problem to the brackets and solved it but every time I reopen the file, the bracket layers are there again :open_mouth:

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Can you please send me the .glyphs file to support (at) (this website without ‘www’ or ‘forum’). I will have a look.

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Sent! Thanks for taking a look into this

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Do you have bracket layers in those glyphs?

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I’m facing the same problem
Glyphs 3.1.2 (3151)

Screenshot 2023-03-13 at 17.01.00

All theses glyphs are composed with components, and some of these component have bracket layers.

I tried to export it with the last cutting edge version, and the same error happen.
This is how my bracket layers are set :

Screenshot 2023-03-13 at 17.05.35

Note that only my components have bracket layers, glyphs made from components do not.

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Any ideas about this issue ? :eyes:

I have more infos :

This issues happen if both components of a glyph have bracket tricks:

wacute is made with w and acutecomb
Both, w and acutecomb have bracket tricks.
Export Issue → The font contains glyphs with the same name: wacute.varAlt01

Here is a test file
Bracket Tricks Issue.glyphs (227.9 KB)

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Currently it is not supported to have bracket layers in more than now component. I need to improve that. It should be possible to improve that in this case, where the brackets are matching in both components. Otherwise it becomes really tricky.

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