User Guide

Glyph Window
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Building an Outline From Blocks
Now you know how to select parts of an outline and copy it, so lets do a few
experiments to show how to use this knowledge.
Suppose that we have an ‘I’ character and we want to create an ‘H’
character.
1. Open the ‘I’ in the Glyph Window (double-click the ‘I’ cell in the Font
Window, use the Glyphs Bar in the Glyph Window toolbar or just
browse the font with the arrow buttons).
2. Cut the character in the middle. Activate the Knife tool, press the left
mouse button at the left of the character, hold the
ALT key on the
keyboard and drag the mouse cursor to the right to define a cutting
line. Release the mouse button:
3. Click on each inserted node to break the contour: