Is there a way to "keep metrics" in digraphs composed via Glyph Construction?

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I am hoping to include digraph glyphs such as Ǆ in my Glyph Construction recipes.

(Entries below from Adobe Latin 5)

01C4	Ǆ	uni01C4	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER DZ WITH CARON
01C5	ǅ	uni01C5	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
01C6	ǆ	uni01C6	LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ WITH CARON

However, if I use a simple recipe like uni01C4 = D + Zcaron, the two components simply overlap.

I see the syntax for glyph width in the GC README, but even with that, or with that plus the matrix transformation, I can't quite achieve the result I'm hoping for – it requires knowledge of the starting widths of both glyphs, and to get the sidebearings correct, would also require knowledge of the initial sidebearings.

uni01C4 = D + Zcaron@1, 0, 0, 1, 600, 0 ^ 1200

So, this could be resolved by using Glyph Construction within a slightly-larger Python script, which would check things like initial widths and sidebearings. However, before I do that, I wanted to check: is there some option I'm missing in Glyph Construction, which might make this simpler?

Thanks for any insights!

ArrowType

Have you tried stacking horizontally?

Ah ha! This is exactly what I was looking for. Didn't expect to see it under that name, though. :D Thanks!

benedikt

Have you tried stacking horizontally?

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