User Guide

Glyph Window
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Guidelines Popup Menu
More commands are available in the guideline’s popup menu.
There are two different guideline popup menus - one for local and one for
global guidelines. Both menus include Align, Delete and Properties
commands. The Properties command, as usual, will open the Property
panel for the active guideline. The Delete command will remove the active
guideline. The Align command is available only for slanted guidelines and
will align them to the vertical or horizontal axis (i.e. remove their slant and
make them vertical or horizontal guidelines).
Global guidelines have an additional set of commands located in the
Guideline Is submenu. By selecting the commands in this submenu you
can set the font parameters: Ascender, Descender, Caps Height, x Height
or Visual Ascender and Descender that are used to set 100% zoom in the
Glyph Window.
The local guideline menu has one additional command, Create
Orthogonal, which you can use to create a guideline that is orthogonal to
the current one: