When you use a formula to set the width and use “=|” to set one sidebearing, that often leaves 1 unit difference on the sidebearing. It’s annoying that this gets marked as metrics out of sync, so it would be great if the warning ignored this particular 1 unit mismatch (maybe at least as an optional setting, in case it’s important to catch those in some low-UPM pixel fonts or something like that).
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can you give an example where that would matter? Update metrics should fix this?
In tabular figures, you set width to a fixed value and want some glyphs like zero.tf or some punctuation to have equal sidebearings, set with =|. Depending on the widths, sometimes equal sidebearings are impossible, and you get something like 15 on one side and =|(16) on the other. I think in this scenario the warning is misleading because it is in fact synced to the best possible value.
Or do you mean when you have a width key, too?
Yes!
I’ll have a look.
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