User Guide

FontLab 4
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Using the Anchors Panel
Use the Anchor panel to preview “virtual” composites:
1. Open the Preview panel (Window menu).
2. Select the Anchors page of the preview panel:
3. Open the base glyph in the Glyph Window. The Anchor panel will
immediately list all of the anchors and all matching accent glyphs that
have “link” anchors:
The left list includes all accent glyphs that can be linked with the base
glyph using one of the defined anchors. The first 10 resulting virtual
composites are previewed in the sample string. Use the check boxes to
the left of the accent list to choose which composites to preview:
4. Choose another anchor in the list to update the accent list with accents
that can be connected to that anchor: