User Guide

FontLab 4
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Moving the Selection
You can move the selected part of the contour by mouse – drag any
selected part of the contour or use the arrow keys. If you press the arrow
key then the selection will move in that direction by one font unit. Hold
down
SHIFT while pressing the arrow keys to accelerate the movement of
the selection.
Copying the Selection
Sometimes you need to copy glyphs or parts of glyphs to another place in
the font or even into a different font. With FontLab you can put any part of
a glyph or an entire glyph (with hints, guides, etc.) into the Windows
Clipboard and paste it into a different place.
To copy parts of the glyph’s outline use the commands from the Edit menu
or the buttons on the Standard toolbar:
Cut
To copy a selected part of the glyph onto the Clipboard and delete
it from the glyph.
Copy To copy a selected part of the glyph onto the Clipboard.
Paste
To add a contour part copied to the Clipboard into the current
glyph as a new contour
Insert
To replace the current selection with the Clipboard contents
Delete
To remove the selected part of a glyph’s contour.
Duplicate
To insert a copy of the selection into the current glyph as a new
contour