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second example, the diacritic recipe, a glyph called ‘xdieresis’
will be generated with ‘x’ as the base and ‘dieresis’ as the
diacritic mark. If available, anchors will be used for the mark
placement. In the last example, the ligature recipe, Glyphs will
create a glyph called ‘germandbls.sc’ with two components
‘s.sc’ next to each other.
Glyphs allows you to nest components. For example,
you can build the ‘dieresis’ glyph out of two ‘dotaccent’
components. Subsequently, you can use this compound
‘dieresis’ in higher-level compounds such as ‘adieresis’ (ä).
Select an anchor in the base glyph to get a preview of the
most common accents that may attach to this glyph. Similarly,
select an anchor in the mark glyph and this accent is shown
on all other glyphs in the same Edit view.
You can add anchors by right-clicking and choosing Add
Anchor from the context menu. You will immediately be
prompted for a name. Enter an ASCII-only name without
whitespace and confirm by pressing Return. You can change
the name of an existing anchor by either clicking on it and
pressing Return or double clicking it, then you can start
typing the new name.
new anchor
Sometimes you need more than one ‘top’ anchor, for example
in Arabic ligatures or Vietnamese letters. In this case, add an
underscore and a number or a sux to the anchor name, e.g.,
‘top_viet’ or ‘top_1’, ‘top_2’ and so on. Then, in the compound
glyph, select the mark, and via the anchor symbol in the grey
info box, select to which anchor the mark component should
attach. The anchor symbol becomes visible if there is more
than one anchor that fits.
x: 136
y: 0
grave.case
h: 100 %
v: 100 %
When building letters from several base glyphs, the
components are set next to each other with the respective
spacing and kerning for this combination. For example when
building a fraction out of one.numr, fraction, and two.dnom,
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