User Guide

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Gu i de l i n e s La ye r
Guidelines are straight lines that are used to guide the drawing of specific
elements of a glyph. Guidelines can be vertical, horizontal or slanted.
Guidelines can be slanted at any angle from -45 to +45 from the vertical or
horizontal direction. Slanted guidelines can help to mark italic characters,
or specific slanted elements in normal characters, like the inner bar in the
letter ‘N’.
You can see little numbers giving the position and slanting angle of each
guideline near the edges of the editing field of the Glyph Window where the
guidelines cross the rulers.
There are local and global guidelines. Local guidelines appear only in the
glyph where they were set. Global guidelines appear in all glyphs of the
font. Global guidelines are very useful to mark important levels in the font
(by using horizontal global guidelines) or to set the base direction of an
italic or oblique font (using slanted vertical guidelines).