User Guide

FontLab 4
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Moving Nodes
The most important editing operation is the modification of the contours
that build each glyph. You can modify contours in three ways: moving
nodes, editing graphical primitives using non-node editing, and selecting
several nodes and moving them together.
To move individual nodes:
1. If nodes are hidden, make the node that you want to edit visible: switch
nodes on with the View > Show Layers > Nodes menu or click near
the node to make it visible. If you missed and an incorrect node is
highlighted, use the
PAGE DOWN and PAGE UP keys to move to the
correct node:
2. Drag the node to the new place. It will stick to other layers if they are
visible and snap-to those layers that are activated (View > Snap-to-
layers menu).
Hold down the
SHIFT key to constrain the direction of the node’s
movement in 15-degree increments and to snap the cursor to the
original node’s position.