User Guide

FontLab 4
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Renaming Glyphs and Classes
When a glyph name is entered into feature definition text the link with this
glyph in the font is lost, so if you rename the glyph using the FontLab glyph
rename command the feature definition will not be updated.
To rename a glyph in the feature definitions, position the cursor on
the glyph name in the feature editing field and click the
button on the
toolbar. You will see a dialog box:
In the top field you can enter the name of the glyph you want to rename
and in the bottom field you enter new name for the glyph.
Check the Replace name in the Classes panel checkbox to rename the
glyph in the FontLab Classes panel.
After you click OK in the dialog box FontLab will scan all the feature
definitions and replace the old glyph name with the new one. Note that you
can enter a glyph class definition as a replacement string, for instance to
replace “one” by “[one two three]”.