Smart Filter request: ability to find composites which don't contain component

There is currently no method for creating a smart filter to check if a composite glyph is lacking a certain base component. I’m requesting this feature as some global scripts contain lots of composite glyphs build from similar looking base forms.

The Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics is a good example as many glyphs contain multiple dots above and/or at the mid-line. To ensure the composite glyphs are referencing the correct dots (i.e. /dotabove and /dot.mid, I’d like a smart filter which identifies if a component ISN’T found in the composite glyph. Currently it’s only possible to search if a glyph contains a component.

You can do that already.


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