User Guide

Editing Font Metrics
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The possible choices are:
Current character
only
This option is available and is the default if any glyph is
selected in the editing area.
All glyphs in the
current string
This option generates metrics for all glyphs in the current
string in the editing area.
Whole font
This forces FontLab to generate metrics for all glyphs in the
font and is not generally recommended. This operation is
not undoable. FontLab prompts you and asks that you save
the current metrics information in a special file from which
it may be easily restored if you are not satisfied with the
results that the autometrics algorithm produced.
You can choose the parameters for the algorithm in the Parameters area of
the Autometrics dialog box. All the parameters are displayed. We
recommend that you experiment with various parameters using the
autometrics application.