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2.4.4 Components, Anchors, Clouds<br />
Letters built from components, so-called compound or<br />
composite glyphs, are handled in a special way. Accented<br />
or marked letters, built from a base letter and a mark,<br />
automatically inherit the spacing from the base glyph. The<br />
mark is positioned according to the anchor positions. The<br />
accented letters are always in sync with the base letter, even<br />
if spacing or anchor positions are changed. Figures and other<br />
non-letters form an exception to this rule. Such compound<br />
glyphs are not in sync with their base glyphs. This, for<br />
instance, allows to easily re-use proportional figures for<br />
tabular figures or vice versa.<br />
You can turn all components inside a glyph into editable<br />
paths by choosing Layers > Decompose Components. Triggering<br />
Decompose from the context menu of a specific component<br />
only decomposes the selected component.<br />
Automatic alignment of components is disabled as<br />
soon as there are any paths in the glyph. Once those paths<br />
are removed again, the compound glyph snaps back into<br />
automatic alignment. To explicitly disable automatic<br />
alignment in pure compound glyphs, right-click on a<br />
component and choose ‘Disable Automatic Alignment’ from<br />
the context menu. For a font-wide deactivation, choose the<br />
option of the same name in File > Font Info > Other Settings.<br />
To edit the base glyph of a component, double click the<br />
component and <strong>Glyphs</strong> will place the original letter next to the<br />
compound glyph. Alternatively, you can select the component<br />
inside the composite glyph and click the arrow symbol that<br />
appears in the grey info box (Cmd-Shift-I). Placeholders can<br />
indicate an ‘Empty Base Glyph’ and a ‘Missing Base Glyph’.<br />
Double clicking the placeholder will open an empty glyph or<br />
create and open a missing glyph, respectively.<br />
Anchors are added to most glyphs automatically with the<br />
Set Anchors command from the Layers menu (Cmd-U). If you<br />
additionally hold down the Option key, <strong>Glyphs</strong> will delete all<br />
anchors in the selected letters and reset the standard anchors.<br />
<strong>Glyphs</strong> <strong>Handbook</strong>, May <strong>2013</strong> 17
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