User Guide

FontLab 4
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You can select a font for the templates or switch off the templates using the
Font Window page in the Options dialog box:
A yellow frame and caption in a character’s cell means that this character is
in the currently selected encoding, codepage or Unicode range (see next
section). Characters that are not in the current encoding have a gray
caption and no yellow frame.
The small marks that appear in the corners of the character cell mean:
Left-Top
Blue mark Character has more than one Unicode index
assigned
Right-Top Yellow-red or
yellow-green
mark
Character has compatible mask layer
Left-bottom Green or red
‘H’ mark
Character has hint replacement program or
overlapping Type 1 hints. A Green mark means
that the program is correct.
Right-bottom
Brown or blue
‘T’ mark
Character has TrueType hints, either original (blue
mark) or manually set visual (brown mark)
The meaning of all the marks will be discussed in full detail later.
Some characters may be marked with a different color for the caption and
background:
Marking is very useful when you need to show visible differences among
characters for easy identification. More about that later.