How to export a monospaced and a proportional CJK font from one Glyphs file?

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Traditionally, CJK fonts are made monospaced while Kanas in some fonts have Palt feature.
I want to develop proportional CJK fonts while keep monospaced versions for users to switch. How can I make two versions from one Glyphs file? Maybe anchors of TSB, BSB, LSB, RSB can be translated to real side bearings during the export process, it that possible?

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That is an interesting idea. It could be implemented as a filter.

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Can we have it sooooon? :grin:

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You can write it yourself :wink:

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I will go to AI for help! hahaha

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I set Layer.BSB = 100 for a certain character, but the BSB of this character in the single-output ttf is still the original default value. Why is this?

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Can you send me the files (the .glyphs and the .ttf)?

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How do you test this?

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I test in Glyphs of Text toolbar use Vertical

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One follow up question: how can I remove kernings of Hanzi when I export for the monospace version? I have solved the previous issue with the help of RealType😄.

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You can add a “Remove Feature” parameter with a value of “kern”. But that removes all kerning, even for the Latin you might have.

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That’s not a good solution ; (

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We don’t have script specific kern filtering. Again, that can be implemented by a custom filter.