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You can take advantage of
the aligning behavior if you
want to manage your serifs in
components. For details, see:
glyphsapp.com/blog/
serif-components/
Tip: A quick way to get rid of
a path segment between two
nodes is to insert a point with
the Draw tool (shortcut P) and
immediately Option-delete it.
vertical alignment, whichever is smaller. The Align Selection
command respects the transformation origin of the grey info
box. Alternatively, you can either set the width (W) or the
height (H) value of two or more selected points to zero in the
same Info panel.
You can center an anchor horizontally between to points
if you run the Align Selection command while two points and
one anchor are selected. Running the command while one
point and one component are selected will align the origin
point (where the baseline crosses the left sidebearing) of the
component to the selected node. The node keeps its position.
If the component contains an anchor called ‘origin’, Glyphs will
use that anchor instead of the origin point for aligning the
component to a node.
To align complete paths and / or components to each other,
use the Transformation section of the Palette (Cmd-Opt-P). See
chapter 3, ‘Palette’ (p. 34), for more details.
2.2.4 Deleting Nodes
Simply select a node and press the Delete key to delete the
node. Alternatively, you can use the Erase tool (shortcut E).
Glyphs will keep the path closed and try to reconstruct the
path segment without the node:
Hold down the Option key to break the path, i.e., remove the
node and both path segments surrounding the node:
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