User Guide
FontLab 4
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Caret Positioning
When several characters are replaced by a ligature glyph using the ligature
substitution lookup, a text-layout application may keep the positioning
cursor inside a ligature as if it still was a set of characters:
With FontLab you can define caret positions inside the ligature. Do the
following:
1. Open the ligature glyph in the Glyph window.
2. Open the properties panel with the Edit > Properties command.
3. In the properties panel select the ligature glyph type.
4. To the right of the glyph type selection list enter the number of
components in the ligature.
5. Make sure that View > Show Layers > Anchors and Carets option is
on.
6. You will see several vertical caret lines appeared in the Glyph window.
The number of the lines equals the number of components of the
ligature minus one:
Use the Edit tool to move the caret lines to the desired positions.