Glyphs-Handbook-2013

2.4.8 Cursive Attachment Anchors
To enable true cursive attachment in Arabic typesetting, add
anchors called ‘exit’ and ‘entry’ to the respective stroke endings
and beginnings in medial, final, and initial letter forms. The
entry anchor of the instroke will be connected to the exit
anchor of the preceding outstroke. You can preview cursive
attachment immediately in the Edit view when right-to-left
typesetting is enabled (see 2.6.3, ‘Writing Direction’, p. 23).
2.5 BACKGROUND
The background layer is useful for storing a path temporarily.
Filters may use the background as backup layer in order to
work non-destructively. To activate the background, choose
Edit Background from the Layers menu (Cmd-B). The window
display will darken slightly to indicate that you are in the
background layer.
Layers > Selection to Background (Cmd-K) replaces the current
content of the background with the active selection; this works
in reverse when the background is active. Simultaneously
holding down the Option key (or pressing Cmd-Opt-K) adds the
current selection to the background without clearing it first.
Via Layer > Assign Background, you can put another font in
the background layer of all selected glyphs. You can also put
the same font into its own background in order to keep track
of outline manipulations.
2.6 ENTERING TEXT
The Edit view also acts as a simple text editor, and as such
allows you to edit your glyphs in the context of a whole
Tip: To quickly switch back word or even sentence. As long as the Text tool (T) is active, it
from text entry to editing the accepts input via the current input source set in the System
current glyph, press the Esc key..
Preferences, the Keyboard Viewer, the Character Viewer, but
also via the clipboard or Edit > Special Characters. In OS X 10.8
Mountain Lion, you can even use the speech recognition
features and dictate your text.
The Edit view is limited to a certain width. You can set
the maximum width in the application preferences. Select
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