I bought Glyphs 3 to make custom scripts with it.
One of the problems I am having are Anchors: I am trying to create combined glyphs from some base glyph containing a top anchor and a comp glyph containing a _top anchor. I would expect that in a glyph using both as components with automatic alignment enabled there would be a way to make the anchors snap onto each other. However, I have not found any way to do so. It only works when I rename my glyphs to known combinations, e.g. the base part to a and the diacritics part to acutecomb.
What am I missing here? Is it possible to make anchors work with custom glyphs or is it not intended to be working for purposes like this? Do I have any alternative except overwriting e.g. Latin with my custom script?
Are you talking about the functionality of the exported font?
The snapping of marks onto base glyphs is governed by the mark feature. You’ll have to write your own feature code if you are using custom glyphs.
You can set the category of your marks to Mark, Subcategory Nonspacing (in the bottom left in the font view, under “Unicode”). Glyphs might automatically write the mark feature accordingly, I haven’t tested.
What are the category and subcategory of the glyphs with the “_top” anchor? Can you show a screenshot of the composite glyph?
thanks, I am glad that it was easy after all. I tried to edit the categories before but it seems I didn’t do it right. Setting the category to Mark and Subcategory to Nonspacing worked.