Re: [fontforge-users] Composite small caps

[Thales M. <tha...@gm...>]

Thanks for sharing that. I usually modify fonts that already have these
lookups present, that's why I didn't think of it. Those anchor rules are
really complex; One must take their time to grasp it.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 3:27 PM Mauro Sacchetto <mau...@gm...>
wrote:

> Oh, the solution was just around the corner!!
>
> I must have messed around with a thousand useless attempts.
>
> In reality, compound glyphs are created correctly with mark combs under
> these conditions:
>
> 1) have all the useful combing glyphs (Modifiers are also present, but
> at this point they are not used);
>
> 2) create the "mark" lookup in Lookup - GPOS with the relevant classes;
>
> 3) set the anchors for base and mark;
>
> 4) in "Preferences - Accents" set PreferSpacingAccents to OFF (the other
> two options have no effect). This is essential.
>
> Now everything works correctly.
>
> Thank you very much for your extensive help.
>
> m
>
>
>
>
> Il 27/08/26 15:40, Thales Martins ha scritto:
> > If you delete the spacing grave(U+0060) and the modifier grave(U+02cb)
> > and leave only the combining grave(U+0300) and then tweak the
> > "PreferSpacingAccents" back and forth, and it still doesn't work, then
> > I don't know. Perhaps someone else could give a tip.
> >
> >
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