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The results of the Open Corner
and Reconnect Nodes operations.
Opening corners only works
on (blue) corner points.
menu, right-click or Ctrl-click. If only one node is selected, the
Open Corner command becomes available instead. It works in
a similar fashion. Resegmenting your outlines this way allows
to edit the path segments independently from each other. It
also makes interpolating easier.
2.2.8 Controlling Path Direction
The starting point of a path is displayed as a triangle,
indicating the path direction. Again, green and blue denote
a smooth connection or a corner, respectively. You can make
any on-curve node the first node by selecting it and picking
Make Node First from the context menu.
Tip: The easiest and quickest All outer (black) paths need to run counter-clockwise,
way to get a hole in a glyph is while (white) counters must go clockwise. You can change a
to draw both inner and outer
path’s direction by selecting it and choosing Layers > Reverse
shapes, and press Cmd-Shift-R
Contours or Reverse Selected Contours from the context menu.
(Correct Path Direction).
One node on each path will suce as path selection. When
no path is selected, you can use Reverse Contours from the
Layers menu to toggle all path directions in a glyph. If you
pick the Correct Path Direction command from the same menu,
Glyphs performs an informed guess and finds the right path
orientation for all contours in the selected glyphs. This will
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