I have a font where the left and right parentheses are mirror images of each other, and the italic is just a 12º skew of the regular. So I thought I’d use the left parenthesis as a component to build the right parenthesis.
But of course this goes horribly wrong with the italic. The skew is the wrong direction, and undoing the skew twice isn’t a perfect match for the original path. And components always stay in sync based on the current master; I can’t seem to use the regular (
as a component in the italic )
.
I suspect the answer to my quandary is “You can’t use components that way; don’t try”, but I thought I’d ask before giving up. Thanks for your time.