User Guide

Glyph Window
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Using the Keyboard
You can use the keyboard to move nodes and to select a node for editing:
Arrow keys
Every click moves current node by one font unit
Shift+Arrow keys Every click moves a node by 10 font units.
Ctrl+Arrow keys
Every click moves a contour that contains a node by one
font unit
Ctrl+Shift+Arrow
keys
Every click moves a contour by 10 font units.
Page Up Selects the previous node for editing
Page Down
Selects the next node for editing
Tab
Alternates between the node and Bezier control vectors
Esc Drops the selection of the current node
 Note: You can make a line or a curve a current object and arrow
operations will move it as a whole. Just left-click on a curve or a line with
the Edit tool and it will be highlighted by a pair of short lines: