I’m implementing basic IPA in Ysabeau and have just filled out the IPA tab in Glyphs App. However, I noticed a significant number of glyphs in ipa.type.it missing from that tab. Wouldn’t it make sense to include all of those in the IPA tab in Glyphs?
Also, it’s annoying to design combining characters like the tie bar or combining accents when Glyphs doesn’t display them as combined. Could that be implemented in Glyphs? Perhaps with a toggle in the bottom right as for kerning…
For instance, I’m rather unhappy with how the tie bar looks between d and ezh (/d/breveinverteddoublecomb/ezh). Font Book shows that to me (see below) but Glyphs doesn’t. I’m not sure how to fix it — perhaps with a precomposed ligature…?
The safest way to make sure it looks as you want is indeed to make a precomposed ligature, the same way you presumably already have precomposed glyphs for ã, ç, etc. (as most fonts do) – that will also be reflected in Glyphs’ edit view if you have ligatures turned on in the feature list.
With Window → Text Preview, you can check the appearance of the mark the same way FontBook would render it.
A ligature makes sense when the number of pairs you intend to support is small. Otherwise, you might want to try dynamically sizing and positioning the mark as outlined here:
