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For the complete list of
recognized glyph names,
choose Glyphs Info from
the Window menu.
Font > Add Glyphs (Cmd-Shift-G) opens a dialog where you
can insert a list of whitespace-separated glyph names.
Glyphs has a built in list of composition recipes (see
Window > Glyph Info) for component-based glyphs. You can
control the composition of a glyph by entering custom
create tcedilla with a single ‘tcommaaccent’ component. For
a detailed description of component recipes, see section 2.4.4,
‘Components, Anchors, Clouds’ (p. 17).
Some entries in the sidebar of the Font view have a number
badge, indicating the number of glyphs already created
versus the total number of glyphs predefined in that
category, language group or filter. Right-click or Ctrl-click it to
get a list of all glyphs missing in this category. Select one or
more glyph names, or press Cmd-A to select all of them, and
click Generate to add them to your font:
5.2.2 Copying Glyphs Between Files
You can copy any number of glyphs from one file (source) and
paste them into another file (target). Components will be relinked
to their respective counterparts in the target font. If a
glyph with the same name already exists in the target font,
then the pasted glyphs will be renamed with an increasing
triple-digit sux, e.g., ‘A.001’, ‘A.002’ etc., avoiding data loss.
If you want to overwrite existing glyphs, you can use the
Paste Special command from the Edit menu while holding
down the Option key (Cmd-Opt-V). It appears if you hold down
the Option key while opening the menu. A dialog will ask you
for what percisely you want to do:
‘Overwrite glyphs with the same name’ just looks for
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