User Guide

5. After you move the point, move the BCP with the
Shift key to make it vertical (and conform to the
template bitmap).
This will turn off Auto Curvature.
What else can you do with this Auto Curvature? Say you
want to make a “Beer Belly” font. Grab the east-most point
of the bowl of letter “D” and pull it out and down. In the
bad old days, before you could control Auto Curvature it
would look like this:
With Auto Curvature turned on, it will look like this:
Fontographer User's Manual
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