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Fontlab: Generating glyph problem

David Wise0 votes

I am trying to generate diacritic glyphs like agrave, etc. but for some reason when I click generate glyph from the anchors preview window it is only generating for instance the a glyph and not the full agrave with the diacritcal mark. My anchors are named correctly and everything is perfectly fine within the anchors preview window...Never had this happen so Im kinda of confused. Tried generating the glyphs a few other ways same solution(or lack there of really.)

Any ideas?

Thanks,
David

What do the components look like? In my experience, it generally grabs the spacing glyph. Are your combining marks the outlines, and the spacing marks composed from them? I don't think components nest.

Here is a shot of everything lining up in the anchors preview window and another shot of what happens after I generate the glyph from the same window. As you can see the diacritical mark is missing completely...
I have included an image of the anchor on the 'a' glyph the marks have a corresponding anchor of _top so things should match after generation as they do in the preview window, but alas no...I have never had this happen and now it is. Frustrating...

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