Setting anchors with Tokens (or similar)

Glyphs
1

Is there a way to set the x/y value of an anchor with, say, a Number Value Token? I’ve got a fixed y for a subset of glyphs and was hoping to use some sort of variable to define the y value for all of them. Since I’ll likely need to adjust this value once I start testing glyph combos, it’d be nice to be able to simply change once and have them all update together quickly.

On a related note, can I use expressions in the x/y values for anchors? For this, I would like to have a second anchor that’s shifted by a fixed amount across a large number of glyphs. Again, this value will need to be adjusted, so being able to do something like y=1215+SomeVariable would be really helpful.

If either of these options are possible what is the syntax?

EDIT: I should clarify – I would prefer to do this in the Edit window, not through feature code (although if that’s the only way that would be useful to know, too).

2

That is not possible.

3

Darn. I’ll look into scripting the value changes when it comes up. Thanks for the reply!

4

It’s a simple task for scripting, something like:

glyphs = "A B C a b c"
for glyph_name in glyphs.split():
	glyph = Font.glyphs[glyph_name]
	for layer in glyph.layers:
		for anchor in layer.anchors:
			if anchor.name == "top":
				anchor.y = 500