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Also, Glyphs is able to find alignment zones (see below) automatically if you first enter correct vertical metrics: ascender, cap height, x-height, descender, perhaps also a smallCapHeight in the Custom Parameters. When determining these values, ignore the overshoot. So, for instance, if you have the choice between various values for the x-height, say 490, 496 and 502, you want the one closest to your baseline, i.e., 490. The Italic Angle has an eect on a number of tools throughout the application. Functions that respect the slant angle include aligning anchors between two selected nodes, the display of the x oset in measurement mode, and the calculation of the sidebearings. 6.2.3 Stems If you enter good values for your standard stems, the autohinter will find those stems in your letters and put a hint on them. Try to find as few values as possible and as representative as possible, separate them by typing a comma. If you have a Multiple Master set-up, make sure the stems are listed in the same order in all masters, otherwise they cannot be interpolated correctly. 6.2.4 Alignment Zones An alignment zone must encompass anything that should later be aligned at a low resolution. For instance, the upper edge of the crossbar of t, the upper edge of x and the highest extremum of o, they should be inside the alignment zone for the x-height. However, the size of an alignment zone must not exceed 25 (or –25 for bottom zones), and there must be at least one unit between any two alignment zones. For a more detailed discussion After you have set the Metrics properly, you can click the of stems and zones, see grey circle to let Glyphs find the alignment zones for you. the Hinting chapter. Glyphs will then reduplicate the heights of the vertical metrics you entered in the Metrics field as the positions of the zones. It also respects the ‘smallCapHeight’ custom parameter if present. And it will try to guess the size of the alignment zones by measuring certain key glyphs in the font. If it cannot find any glyphs to measure, the sizes default to 16 for top zones, –16 for the descender zone and –15 for the baseline zone. It is a good idea to double check if your most important glyphs do end inside the alignment zones. Glyphs Handbook, May 2013 56
6.2.5 Custom Parameters Click on the green Plus button to add custom parameters for the masters. You can also copy and paste parameters. Values are interpolated if defined in all masters. Master parameters override all font-wide settings and parameters, but are overridden by instance-level settings and parameters. Glyphs accepts these master-level parameters: See section 12.2, ‘Custom Parameters’ (p. 87), for possible values and a detailed description of custom parameters. 6.3 INSTANCES Use the plus and minus buttons in the lower left corner of the Font Info window to add and remove instances. You can edit several instances at once if you Shift-click or Cmd-click the instance names in the list on the left. 6.3.1 Style Name This is the style name as it will appear in InDesign’s font menu. You can use a space in the style name, but non-ASCII characters may prevent the font from exporting. 6.3.2 Weight and Width These settings aect the order of fonts in the font menu. Sorting occurs first by width, then by weight, e.g.: Glyphs Handbook, May 2013 57
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Contents 1 Glyphs 6 1.1 A Tool for
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Page 15 and 16: Tip: You may need to change your Sp
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Page 21 and 22: 2.4.8 Cursive Attachment Anchors To
Page 23 and 24: Tip: On a MacBook, you can simulate
Page 25 and 26: The x delta values respect the ital
Page 27 and 28: code. Negative kernings will be dis
Page 29 and 30: 2.9.2 Manipulating Images Move the
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Page 33 and 34: 2.11.3 Copy the Paths Copy and past
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Page 37 and 38: This means that if you want to scal
Page 39 and 40: Tip: You can apply the Make Stroke
Page 41 and 42: 4.7 TRANSFORMATIONS 4.7.1 Transform
Page 43 and 44: 5.1.2 List View You can switch the
Page 45 and 46: glyphs with the same glyph names as
Page 47 and 48: 5.3.9 Read-Only Properties in List
Page 49 and 50: 5.5.4 Custom Filters To define a qu
Page 51 and 52: This automation can be deactivated
Page 53 and 54: 6 Font Info 6.1 FONT Open the Font
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Page 61 and 62: 6.5 OTHER SETTINGS 6.5.1 Grid Spaci
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Page 65 and 66: Kerning exceptions are handled per
Page 67 and 68: For an in-depth discussion, see: ty
Page 69 and 70: 8.1.3 Custom Parameters Apart from
Page 71 and 72: Positioning of vertical stem hints
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Page 75 and 76: Tip: Quickly switch between masters
Page 77 and 78: 10 Error Handling 10.1 GLYPH NAMES
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Page 81 and 82: 10.5.4 Outline Incompatibility Inco
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Page 85 and 86: Tip: do not use the figure suffix w
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Page 89 and 90: UFO3 Font Info properties are descr
Page 91 and 92: Further, applications loading embed
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