User Guide

FontLab 4
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Using the Keyboard
When the glyph is active, you can use the keyboard to adjust the metrics:
Left and right
arrow keys
Moves the glyph by one font unit inside the sidebearings without
changing the advance width. Hold the S
HIFT key to move the
glyph by 10 font units.
Ctrl+left and
right arrow keys
Moves the glyph together with the right sidebearing. This changes
the left sidebearing and the advance width. Hold the S
HIFT key to
move by 10 font units at each key click
Insert
Changes the current glyph to the next glyph in the font
Delete
Changes the current glyph to the previous glyph in the font.
Page Up
Moves to the previous glyph in the sample line
Page Down
Moves to the next glyph in the sample line
Any character
or digit
Selects the character you have clicked as the current character for
editing. You can also enter the glyph name if you want to access
glyphs that are not assigned to any key combination.