User Guide

FontLab 4

Here is what the commands mean:

Width Allows you to easily select one of the predefined widths of the Font

window.

Copy

Copies the selected glyphs onto the Clipboard. Same as the Copy

command from the Edit menu

Paste Places glyphs from the Clipboard into the font starting from the

first selected cell. Same as the Paste command from the Edit

menu.

Append

Appends glyphs from the Clipboard to the current font.

Delete Deletes the selected glyphs. Same as the Delete command from

the Edit menu.

Mark

Marks the selected glyph(s) with one of the predefined colors

Submenu with more commands (described below)

Sort glyphs Applies different sorting methods to the glyph collection. Note

that this has no effect on glyph encoding or names. Only the

indexes of glyphs are changed.

Edit in new

window

Creates a new Glyph window and opens the current glyph in it

Edit metrics

Opens the Metrics window with the currently selected glyphs

Properties

Opens the glyph properties panel for the current glyph or selected

glyphs