Glyphs-Handbook-2013

6.3.5 Custom Parameters 58
6.4 Features 60
6.5 Other Settings 61
6.5.1 Grid Spacing 61
6.5.2 Subdivision 61
6.5.3 Don’t Use Nice Names 61
6.5.4 Disable Automatic
Alignment 61
6.5.5 Keep Alternates Next To
Base Glyph 62
7 Spacing and Kerning 63
7.1 Spacing 63
7.1.1 Spacing Shortcuts 63
7.1.2 Linked Metrics 63
7.2 Kerning 64
7.2.1 Ways to Kern 64
7.2.2 Kerning Groups 64
7.2.3 Viewing Kerning Pairs 65
7.2.4 Deleting Kerning Pairs 65
7.2.5 Cleaning up Kerning 65
7.2.6 Compressing Kerning 65
7.2.7 Adding an Additional ‘kern’
Feature Lookup 66
7.3 Sample Texts 66
7.3.1 Placeholders 66
8 Hinting 67
8.1 Font-Wide Hinting
Settings 67
8.1.1 Standard Stems 67
8.1.2 Alignment Zones 67
8.1.3 Custom Parameters 69
8.2 Autohinting 69
8.2.1 Flex hints 69
8.3 Manual hinting 70
8.3.1 Stem Hints 70
8.3.2 Ghost Hints 72
9 Multiple Master 73
9.1 Overview 73
9.2 Set-Up 74
9.3 Merging Two Files 74
9.4 Fix Outline
Incompatibility 74
9.5 Layers Panel 76
9.6 Ensuring Family
Consistency across Files 76
10 Error Handling 77
10.1 Glyph Names 77
10.2 Font Names 77
10.3 Duplicate Unicode
Values 78
10.4 OpenType Feature Code 78
10.5 Missing Outlines 80
10.5.1 Open Paths 80
10.5.2 Wrong Path Orientation 80
10.5.3 Multiple Paths on Top of
Each Other 80
10.5.4 Outline Incompatibility 81
11 Import and Export 82
11.1 FontLab 82
11.1.1 From FontLab to Glyphs 82
11.1.2 From Glyphs to FontLab 82
11.2 Robofont and Other UFO
Tools 82
11.3 OpenType and TrueType 82
11.3.1 Opening Existing Fonts 82
11.3.2 Generating Installable
Fonts 83
12 Appendix 84
12.1 Automatic Feature
Generation 84
12.2 Custom Parameters 87
12.2.1 Glyphs-Specific
Parameters 87
12.2.2 UFO 3 Parameters 89