What am I doing wrong with components?

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ilotoki
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What am I doing wrong with components?

Post by ilotoki »

This
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should look like this
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And it does normally, but if I make the same component formula on a different glyph plus any other components, it moves all of the other components.

This is the base glyph called "numeral"
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, so it is not meant to have any other glyph components, but [numeral]+[1] looks just like it when I move a component.

All of the components should be directly touching the "numeral" component, but you can see they're scattered about
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Here is an example to show the components moving differently in different glyphs:
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Re: What am I doing wrong with components?

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It might behave different if a mark also has a base anchor, as it will then becomes a stacking mark.

Can you send use the font project file, so we can look into the issue?
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Re: What am I doing wrong with components?

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This?
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Re: What am I doing wrong with components?

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I think it is hard to make it work without anchors.

This tutorial is aimed at creating an Arabic font, but it shows the concept of marks that are attached to a base glyph:
https://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/ ... ont-design

The "Component" Type is part of the font specification, but it is of no use. You should only need Base and Mark types.
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