Help with Contextual Alternatives (Randomising)

Glyphs
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Hello,

I’ve been using this guide to randomise my contextual alternates (which I’ve adjusted for 5 stylistic sets) Features, part 3: advanced contextual alternates | Glyphs

At first glance it seems to work, things are randomising when I type. However, I’ve noticed that, although when I type the same letter out 6 times in a row, with no spaces, it cycles through as you would expect—when I then insert a space between each letter, it changes after the first letter (ie. it types out default, then ss01, but then keeps typing ss01).

I included space within the code as outlined in the tutorial, but can’t see what I am missing here. Maybe it’s just a tricky code to implement, but if there is a solution I’d love to find it.

thanks in advance!

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How are you doing the testing? In which app?

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Within glyphs itself, in the editor view (but have also exported and used the font in adobe programs)

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Substitutions that include the space glyph are tricky and do not work everywhere.

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That’s good to know thank you, I"m fairly new to Glyphs/making fonts, and I wasn’t sure