User Guide

Glyph Window
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Using Anchors to Build Composites
The main purpose of anchors is to mark important positions in the glyph
space. In addition, anchors may be used to “link” some glyphs and form
composite glyphs:
You can define a composite glyph using the Composites tool any time, but
that operation creates “fixed” composites and you would need to perform it
manually for every composite glyph you want to create. For composites
that consist of a base glyph and one or more “accent” glyphs this operation
may take a lot of time.
In contrast, with anchors you can create “virtual” composites, which can be
converted to the fixed state at any time with the Create Glyphs command
(Glyph menu).
To define a virtual composite the first thing you need to do is to open
the base glyph: